Word: swore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...local Virginia organization to spend the $48,000 unaccounted for, the Government put Frank Lyon, one of the Bishop's lieutenants, on the stand. He swore that he had never even heard of the "Headquarters Committee" for which the Government contended he was working. He was shown a letter on the Headquarters Committee's stationery. "Don't you remember having seen that stationery...
...beat Bertil to a London altar (TIME, March 5). Last week Swedish courtiers were certain that Bertil of the royal Bernadottes intended to marry Christina as soon as he gets his Lieutenant's commission in the Swedish Navy. Christina's army officer father promptly denied the story, swore that his daughter would not dream of marrying the prince. Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf announced that the prince would not dream of marrying the captain's daughter. But in Cannes King Gustaf was worried. He was reported to have said to Spain's onetime King Alfonso XIII...
...matter of the murder of Judge Prince, Dijon police could only announce that they were "hot on the trail" of a mysterious automobile containing a woman and two men that had been seen by several witnesses near the scene of the crime. But in Paris two men swore that they recognized Gilbert Romanigno, former secretary to Stavisky, as the man who had watched the Prince apartment for several days before his death. ¶ Philippe Henriot. fiery young Deputy of the Right, gave the investigating committee details of still another murder of the incredible Stavisky Saga. Kept from the French Press...
...drive on fire traps, Commissioner Post recently swore he would compel all landlords, many of whom cannot pay taxes, to make their properties safe and sanitary. Vincent Astor countered with an offer to sell his slum holdings for their assessed value ($800,000). Other large slum owners like the Stuyvesants. Folsams and Columbia University chimed in with offers to cooperate. But for true low-cost housing even the assessed valuation is too high. Everybody wants slum-clearance including the landlords and the mortgage holders. But the landlords and the mortgage holders want their money first. A recent Manhattan Tenement House...
Haled before the committee. Editor Armentrout admitted that he had the name of the writer, but swore he would not reveal it even when he was accused of ''placing the Courier-Journal above the State of Kentucky." Said he: "The names of the writers of such communications are confidential. They give their names to the editor in the belief that confidence will not be betrayed and it will not." After further attempts to browbeat Editor Armentrout into committing the unpardonable sin of journalism, the committee ordered a sergeant-at-arms to take him to the Frankfort jail...