Word: swore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Counsel Ray Jenkins: Do you recall that Mr. Stevens . . . swore under his oath . . . that you asked him to assign Dave Schine to the New York area...
Faxon told the School Committee that he has not belonged to the Communist Party since 1951, when membership became illegal in the Commonwealth. He asserted that he had never violated the Constitutions of the United States or Massachusetts, which he swore to uphold when he took the teachers' oath...
This time the hearing was formal. Rutman was sworn, and his testimony recorded by stenographers. He restated his earlier answers, then swore that he was not presently a member of the party or of any affiliated group, and repeated his reasons for joining and leaving Communism. Relterating that he knew of no present Communists at Jefferson Rutman again refused to give names. Approximately half of the five-hour hearing was devoted to the testimony of six character witnesses who asserted they believed Rutman to be a loyal citizen, and a person of honesty and integrity...
Lorwin said he may have said some such thing jokingly; he may have flashed his Socialist card, which was red, whereas the Communist card then was a black, 16-page booklet. Under oath he swore that he had never been a Communist. The board cleared him of loyalty charges, but in February 1951 suspended him as a security risk. Later, McCarthy publicly took credit for Lorwin's suspension...
...obviously no help at all to William Kerr Scott, 58, tobacco-chewing ex-governor running for the Senate seat to which little-known Attorney Alton Asa Lennon was appointed last July. Sure enough, it turned out, the handbills came from Lennon's supporters. Kerr Scott denounced the trick, swore his devotion to segregation. At week's end he won the Democratic primary anyway, beating Lennon and five other candidates...