Word: swore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Belgium, the Bank still listed him as a vice governor, had not chosen a successor. Broadly he hinted that Paul van Zeeland was still accepting his $20,400 salary as a bank official, in addition to his much smaller salary as Premier of Belgium.* Furious, Premier van Zeeland swore that this was a lie, offered to open all his private accounts. Parliament believed him. Gustave Sap's own Catholic Party demanded that he either apologize publicly or leave the organization. Gustave Sap refused to do either, sued a number of his Catholic brethren for slander, but from then...
Three years ago the America's Cup yacht races off Newport ended with much public confusion over the various fouls, protests and rulings and British Skipper Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith swore he would never race U. S. Skipper Harold Stirling Vanderbilt again. Last week's concluding pair of the four successive British defeats in the 1937 America's Cup series found all hands publicly cheering each other but Skipper Sopwith a little groggy from the spectacular quality of his beating...
Across the Capitol in the House, Mississippi's John E. Rankin led the NLRB attack. Fighting the Board's request for a bigger appropriation to handle some 200 cases every month, Congressman Rankin swore he would oppose appropriating another dollar "until representatives of NLRB cease the communistic activities by which they are stirring up strife in every section of the country, and especially in the Southern States. I cannot withhold my protest until the streets of Southern towns and cities are stained with the blood of innocent people...
...voted to appoint three entirely different Regents. These grave dignitaries have performed their stewardship well. Last week in the Barlman the powers they have exercised were turned over to Farouk I in a simple ceremony of oath-taking like that by which a President is sworn in at Washington. Swore His Majesty upon the sacred Koran last week, with alert U. S. Minister to Egypt Bert Fish listening in the diplomatic box: "I promise before Allah the Almighty to observe the Constitution and laws of the Egyptian people and to maintain the national independence and integrity of their territory...
...Coffee, Miss., R. J. Knight exhibited a 7-ft., 198-lb. sturgeon, produced six witnesses who swore that after the fish had broken several trotlines, Fisherman Knight had hooked it, two of his companions had ridden it to shore, a third had shot it dead with a rifle...