Word: swore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Peron's proletarians acclaimed his action and thundered for more. The bank-clerks' union swore never to cash another La Prensa, check, the petroleum-workers' union never to fuel another La Prensa truck. Eva Peron's General Confederation of Labor proclaimed the Peronista program : expropriate La Prensa forthwith...
...Friend. Witness Ross Bohannon took the stand. A Texas lawyer, he testified that in trying to get an RFC loan for the Texmass Petroleum Co. in 1949, he talked with Merl Young. Young, he swore, offered to help in return for a fee of $10,000 cash-plus $7,500 a year for the next ten years. Young denied the story, said it was Bohannon who had talked about a big fee, and declared that he hadn't even been tempted. New Hampshire's Charles W. Tobey intervened...
...Scopes in Dayton, Tenn. in 1925; of a heart attack; in Dayton. Superintendent of Schools White agreed with Scopes, high school biology teacher in Dayton, that the state's law against teaching evolution was absurd. To get it annulled, Scopes stood trial for teaching the doctrine, White swore out the warrant. As Lawyer Clarence Darrow (for evolution) and William Jennings Bryan (against it) argued, the issue of intellectual freedom v. bigotry caught the interest of the world. Scopes lost, was fined $100. The fine was remitted, but the law remains...
...days the Government produced an array of eleven witnesses, who painted a detailed picture of a dedicated Communist. Old associates swore that he had certainly behaved and talked like one when he worked as a messenger for TVA in 1936-37; that he got his mail at a Communist letter "drop" (Box 1692 in the Knoxville post office) used only by party members; that he went to private Communist meetings...
Jaunty and happy, James F. Byrnes stood in the bright southern sunshine outside the Capitol at Columbia and raised his right arm. He swore that he would defend the South Carolina and U.S. Constitutions, that he had not engaged in any duels since Jan. 1, 1881, that he would not engage in any while in office. The cheerful, unsegregated crowd of 65,000 whites and Negroes sent up a roar of applause for South Carolina's new governor...