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...most orndite men in the world, he was always simple and natural in manner. There was however, one respect in which he was unlike the majority of college professors today. Although he often spoke of certain books and writers with contempt, I never heard him swear. Perhaps if he had played golf...
However the U.S. looked to the Ambassador's aristocratic eyes, no flicker of resentment showed in them. Antagonistic newspapermen who baited him found themselves answered gravely and at length, could not swear that he knew he was being baited...
Most members of Congress were not at all amused to learn that, before they could collect their next pay checks, they would have to swear that they do not advocate violent overthrow of the Government. Whether they thought it was funny or not, the joke was on them. For two years Congress has written into various appropriation bills a requirement that Federal wage earners be required to take an oath of innocence in this regard...
From Berlin there were prompt reports that General Tsolakoglou's new Government would be "welcomed." But prominent Greek Orthodox clergymen refused to swear in Tsolakoglou, and he finally took his oath before a lowly priest...
Waters has a theory that his predeces sors in cab manufacturing got into trouble by operating their own fleets ; he lets some body else worry about running his cabs, is happy to sell one to anybody who has $295 for a down payment. Manhattan's independent cabbies swear by him; until he started selling them brand-new cabs at $1,195 they had to pay nearly that much for castoffs from the big fleets. Last week Waters was sure his theory was right and that he had the taxi business licked: he started delivering 550 new SkyViews to Terminal...