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...last year Californians had never troubled to enforce their election law which requires circulators of petitions to swear that they have personally witnessed the affixing of each signature. But in November 1934 jittery citizens were still seeing Red after their Communist-fomented agricultural strikes and the San Francisco General Strike. Investigating Communist Party petitions, vigilant patriots charged that eight circulators had made false attestations, got out warrants for their arrest. Last February one of them, a young woman named Louise Todd, was convicted of perjury, sentenced to one to 14 years in Tehachapi Women's Prison. Embarrassed authorities overlooked...
Cyclists of both sexes now infest British roads to such a point that politicians talk seriously of having to win "the cyclist vote." Aristocratic motorists are often heard to swear jestingly that they would like to do to cyclists some of the things Mortimer surprised and shocked the Empire by doing...
...with full knowledge and malice aforethought had been playing a ringer all year, why would they suddenly bounce him out the day of the game they wanted most to win? They didn't have to: nobody had protested him, and in fact his own father sought to swear to Key's identity. I think you're wrong: credit us with being gullible-dumb- but not malicious...
Chief ceremony of the Philippines' transformation from territorial to commonwealth status was the inauguration of small, brown Manuel Luis Quezon to be the Philippine Commonwealth's first President. Most of the 15,000 official guests on hand to watch President Quezon swear his oath were influential brown-skinned fellow-countrymen in white suits and straw hats. But the guests whom President Quezon was happiest to see were the white-skinned envoys of the liberating Republic: Secretary Dern, Vice President John Nance Garner, 17 U. S. Senators, 26 U. S. Representatives, 34 U. S. newspapermen, to the last...
Last week Comptroller General John Raymond McCarl ruled that hereafter the 4.000 employes of District of Columbia public schools must swear every month that they have not "taught or advocated" Communism, otherwise go without pay checks. Since the ruling failed to define the exact meaning of "teach," school officials were in a worse quandary than ever. Not so Major General Fries. Said he: "Three cheers for McCarl! That's just fine. When the law reads so clearly there's nothing else to do but observe...