Word: swore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Solemnly holding a copy of the only Bible ever approved by an American Congress,* dapper, dark-haired Lawrence Quincy Mumford, 50, last week swore to perform faithfully one of the most arduous bookkeeping jobs the world has to offer. As the new Librarian of Congress (appointed last April by President Eisenhower), Mumford will preside over the world's largest storehouse of the written word-31,692,000 pieces, including 9,000,000 books, 13 million manuscripts and 412,000 records...
...federal grand jury charged Henry ("The Dutchman") Grunewald with ten counts of perjury before a congressional investigating committee and a Washington grand jury. Influence-Peddler Grunewald, said the grand jury, had lied about his tax-fixing activities in the halcyon days of the Truman Administration. Sample charge: Grunewald swore before a House Ways and Means Subcommittee in 1953 that he had never discussed tax matters with his pal, Daniel Bolich,* although Bolich, then Assistant Commissioner of Internal Revenue, shared Grunewald's lavish hospitality and his Washington hotel suite for more than a year...
Down Wind. In Kosciusko, Miss., charged with operating a still, Rudolf Slater swore he never would have been caught except that his dog's run-in with a skunk had left it unable to smell approaching revenuers...
Zouzou stormed, swore, cried. A police captain, summoned, wrung his hands, rang his friends and knew not what to do. Safsaf got on the phone and asked to speak to his love. "Never," cried Zouzou. "I won't speak to him until he brings me my divorce. I'll never go back to that bald, blind, unmanly...
...thinks London stinks. job workman, he was the oldest son in a family of four sons and seven daughters. He was a rebellious, difficult child. When he was sent to school, the teacher asked him to spell "a." He couldn't, and the other children laughed. "I swore I wouldn't learn to read and write, they wouldn't make me." Obstinately, he stuck to that vow, left school at 14 without having learned to read a sentence. He got odd jobs as milkman, baker, house painter, hospital orderly. "Sometime I quit, sometimes they sacked...