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...Communications would be disrupted ... Airplanes would fly smack into mountains and towers-and the surviving pilots would swear they were properly lined up for landing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Creeping War | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

Davis, also President of the Daily Worker, devoted most of his speech to a discussion of a bill recently introduced by the Thomas Un-American Committee into Congress. This measure would require members of Communist "front" and political organizations to swear their allegiance to this nation, or else suffer heavy fines and imprisonment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: John Reed Group Hears Davis Flail Truman, Thomas | 4/30/1948 | See Source »

...vote, it also decided that the Taft-Hartley law was within the Constitution in requiring that, before a union can take a case to the National Labor Relations Board, its officers must swear that they are not Communists. The majority held that Congress has the right to prescribe qualifications for those who ask the "privilege" of acting for workers as their exclusive bargaining agents. For good and obvious reasons, said the court, Congress had decided that Communists do not qualify...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Not Qualified | 4/26/1948 | See Source »

Along with the jumbo, they talked of the surrounding dark-panelled walls and the many-colored candle-holders; and soon the O.G. was known round the world. Patrons would swear it outdated Harvard Hall and few were doubted; but actually the Grille hit the Square in 1939, moving up from a North Cambridge location. Harvard men found it right away and Cambridge Summer Theatre stars began to go over after the shows, leaving tips on the tables and their pictures over the bar. Proud of its exotic liqueur collection from 52 countries, the prewar O.G. would guarantee a free drink...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The O.G.---Exotic Liqueurs, Beer of Every Description | 3/2/1948 | See Source »

...Teachers' Oath Law requires instructors to swear to support the constitution of the United States...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Revision of Barnes Bill Could Puzzle Bradford | 2/18/1948 | See Source »

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