Word: swears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Price's story. In a New York City hospital, she had already reversed her testimony months before, claiming the rape story was a frame-up. But Orville Gilley, hobo "poet" who had been in the gondola, did corroborate it. Defendant Patterson, nervous and blinking, took the stand to swear that he had never seen any girls on the train. "They told us in jail if we didn't say we done it, they'd kill us,'' he blurted. "They told us they'd give us to the mob outside...
...TIME erred in stating fortnight ago that, "in Iowa 20,000 deputies and 50,000 militia stood to arms to keep the peace." Iowa's militia totals 3,751, and was not ordered out. By request of local sheriffs, some militiamen were allowed to swear in as special deputies. There were approximately 1,000 deputies throughout the State, of which not more than 200 actively participated in quelling the strike. Milo Reno, prime agitator of the farm holiday movement, characterized as "preposterous" his colleagues' claim that 250,000 pickets were posted throughout the Corn Belt. He put total...
...Henry's bill made Laborites see red and swear purple. It would take discretion in dole cases away from the local boards appointed by Britain's municipal councils, many of which have just been captured by Labor in sweeping gains at the last municipal elections (TIME, Nov. 13). A central government board, staffed by civil servants, would administer a much restricted dole, based on division of the jobless into three classes: 1) "the occasionally unemployed"; 2) "the chronically unemployed"; and 3) "the unemployable destitute" who would get only such relief as is provided in the Poor Laws established...
...candidate elected. When a viva voce vote showed most of the electors for Lewis Morris, whom Governor Cosby had deposed as Chief Justice of New York's Supreme Court, the Sheriff demanded a poll. Against all precedent, he barred from voting 38 Quakers for refusing to "swear on the Book" to their eligibility. Nonetheless Lewis Morris won the day and the electors triumphantly "waited on their new representative to his lodging with trumpets sounding and violins...
...embraced each other and their escorts with patriotic fervor as eight judges of the Cuban Supreme Court arrived majestically in their black robes. No foreign envoy, not even U. S. Ambassador Welles, was present. Amid sizzling heat Dr. Cespedes. perspiring in formal morning clothes, took this brief oath: "I swear faithfully to fulfill the duties of President of the Republic and enforce the Constitution and the laws!" Going inside from the garden terrace he signed the oath, exclaiming as he laid down his pen, "Viva la Republica Libre...