Word: swore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When slender, white-haired Benjamin E. Youngdahl (brother of Minnesota's Governor Luther Youngdahl) came to St. Louis in 1945 as dean of Washington University's School of Social Work, he swore that in five years he'd "win an end to the ban on Negroes ... or go elsewhere...
...Ringling, Okla., and bungled it. They got only $9. A few days later Hoodlum Godbey was captured. Prosecutor Earl Pruet, a vigorous and sarcastic lawyer, pointed out to the court that Godbey was a fifth offender, and demanded a stiff sentence for him. Godbey got 35 years, and swore to Pruet: "I'll kill you if it's the last thing I ever...
...been born in California rather than Russellville (where records showed that a Clark Council Hamilton Jr., colored, had been born in 1928). His wife believed him, refused to listen to her mother's demands that she get a divorce. But her mother had a final weapon-she swore to a complaint against Hamilton...
...wife got him a lawyer, swore that she still wanted him-black or white. But if he were proved to be a Negro (Virginia's definition: "every person in whom there is ascertainable any Negro blood"), he would be guilty of miscegenation-a crime punishable by as much as five years in the penitentiary...
...younger, stormier days, he could wither a strong man with his swearing. "He swore so much," recalls one student, "he had to hyphenate his words to get them all in." Rare was the Schmidt boy who was not roundly berated, fired and rehired every few days...