Word: swore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...state and gave his account. The men he nabbed, he said, were shouting "down with the Police," and "What is this, the Gestapo?" He could not, however, identify any of those he had except for Frederick Gooding, Jr. '54, who had a camera slung over his shoulder. He also swore that he did not have a club, nor did any of the officers with...
Chambers ran a real risk of prosecution for his part in the conspiracy when he volunteered these names and facts in 1939. He again risked prosecution, as a perjurer, in 1948, when he swore several times that he had no espionage material, then reversed himself and produced a four-foot stack of secret Government telegrams and typescripts. Says he: "I never asked for immunity. Nor did anyone at any time ever offer me immunity, even by a hint or a whisper." For weeks it was widely thought that Chambers, not Hiss, would be indicted...
Friends of the accused duo swore last night that they could account for the actions of both during the entire afternoon...
When Gross was asked why these big shots had not been named in the indictment last year, he answered: "To quote Judge Leibowitz, maybe some money changed hands." He swore he had testified about all of them before the grand jury, and had later asked an assistant D.A. if the high police officials were being left alone out of favoritism. He had been told: "Don't be a lawyer...
...elected to the Georgia general assembly. He has been in public office ever since, has never lost an election. For ten years Russell served in the assembly, became its parliamentary expert and its presiding officer. Then he decided to move up. In 1931, Chief Justice Richard Brevard Russell Sr. swore in Richard Brevard Russell Jr. as governor of Georgia. He was 33, the youngest governor in the state's history...