Word: swore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Point of View. In Santa Monica, Calif., when Richard F. Mossman was charged with drunkenness by a witness who swore that both Mossman's eyes had been bloodshot, the accused showed the jury that his right eye was made of glass, promptly won an acquittal...
Leading the market were the television shares, notably Admiral Corp., which declared a 100% stock dividend. For those who still swore by the Dow theory, regardless of its confusing "signals," there was also reason to cheer. The railroad average, lagging behind the industrial, now broke through last March's "resistance" point. To some Dow theorists, that was a sign that a bull market was in the making...
...received relatively little publicity, mainly due to the fact that Loyalty hearings are generally closed ones. In at least two publicized cases, however, including last year's notorious Remington trial, unconfirmed charged of association, similar to those obtainable from these statements, were used to fire government personnel although they swore they were anti-communist. The adequacy of the loyalty boards in applying this information is still pretty doubtful...
...getting a fair trial in Manhattan. To back up his argument, he produced photostats of 40 New York newspaper articles which he considered prejudicial to his defense and the affidavits of two of the four jurors who voted for his acquittal in his first trial. Both of them swore that they had received threatening letters and postcards, urging them: "Drop dead or go to Russia." Hiss wanted the new trial to be held in Vermont, where he had spent the summer, and where "the press coverage of the first trial was very limited...
Three weeks ago 23-year-old Thérèse Bourgault, for five years unable to walk without crutches, stood before Robert. "You will be cured," he pronounced, and witnesses swore that she walked away without crutches. Not all supplicants found such response. With crowds on hand from 8 a.m. till midnight, the four children had to work in shifts, were often irritable...