Word: swore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would have to put a new writer, unfamiliar with the complicated material, on the story. Furthermore, we couldn't find hide or hair of an excellent 50-page piece of research (the basis for a story FORTUNE had done on Lever Bros. in 1940) which London swore was in TIME'S morgue. More transatlantic telephoning ensued, and we finally got London's copy of the research...
Alabama: The runoff primary for governor was a freakish contest. Outsize (6 ft. 8 in.) Jim Folsom, ex-G.I. endorsed by the C.I.O., mopped up professional politician L. Handy Ellis with the added help of sudsy showmanship (TIME, May 20) and a five-piece band. Big Jim, who swore he kissed 50,000 women in the campaign, polled heavily in back-country areas, and in these he had discreetly soft-pedaled his P.A.C. support...
...country can judge me if I fail," said Perón, as he swore to defend constitutional government. Then he outlined his national program: 1) "unshakable maintenance-firm and intransigent -of our sovereignty"; 2) "social improvement"; 3) a new "dynamic" system of justice. He said no direct word about Argentina's Chapultepec and United Nations promises to toss out his Nazi friends; that he would leave to Congress...
...report was crystal clear except an explanation of the switchboard in Thorez' regal office. The switchboard was an impressive affair studded with 48 buttons and twinkling red and green lights. LaGuerre, who couldn't take his eyes off of it, asked the leader what it signified. Thorez swore that he never had been able to figure the blamed thing...
Lieut. Colonel Gregory ("Pappy") Boyington swore out a warrant in San Diego for the lady friend he surprised last January by marrying another (TIME, Jan. 21). Lucy Rogers Malcolmson, charged the Marine ace, had stolen $9,340 he had sent her for the care of his children by his first wife (who married a newsboy last March). When the news reached Reno, Miss Malcolmson, who was preparing to become a landlady for marital transients, promptly disappeared. Six days later she was still missing...