Word: swore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CZECH COMPLAINTS. Dispatched: a demand for a Czech government apology to 40-year-old Katherine Kosmak, U.S. employee of the U.S. Information Service in Prague, who swore she had been pressured by Czech police to marry a Czech fellow-worker and renounce U.S. citizenship. Received: a brusque note demanding 1) the recall of U.S. Press Attache Joseph Kolarek for "inducing" Czech USIS employees "to spy and gather news"; and 2) the closing of the two USIS offices because they are spy centers and spread "hostile and aggravating and false news." Dispatched: a reluctant compliance (since international law is on their...
...that he was having an affair with his wife's 17-year-old sister Nancy, who lived with them. This much was clear: one night while the Randolphs and Nancy were visiting relatives, Nancy roused the household with "the unmistakable animal scream of a woman in labor." She swore she was only suffering from colic; but a week later, after the Randolphs had gone back home to their own plantation, the body of a newborn baby was found in the woodpile...
...mile for airmail subsidy, Rickenbacker got the bid by offering to fly the mail for nothing. He adopted a policy of waiting for other lines to use new aircraft-and risk crashes-before adopting them himself. He insisted on personally checking every expense item over $100, swore that he would never pay a dividend on Eastern's stock (he has 100,000 shares, is the largest stockholder) as long as the line owed the banks a dollar. He adopted a policy of gathering the line's executives together at semiannual meetings and hazing them unmercifully as they reported...
Guilty Still paralyzed by a bullet in his spine, Negro Sharecropper Thomas Harris raised himself painfully from his stretcher and pointed at the defendant. It was 25-year-old Windol Whitt, he swore, who had stood at the back door of his house with a shotgun the night three of his children were murdered and another wounded by three drunken white hoodlums. By Mississippi law, that was all the prosecutor had to prove. Last week an all-white jury in the little town of Kosciusko (pop. 4,291) brought in the verdict...
Ulises A. Sanabria, 43, a Chicago television executive, married his son's divorced wife, thereby becoming his granddaughter's stepfather. Bewhiskered, 102-year-old J. Frank Dalton went into court in Union, Mo., swore that he was Jesse James and petitioned to have his rightful name restored. The judge turned him down, in tones of disbelief, and then growled: "[But] if he is Jesse James I suggest he retreat to his rendezvous and ask his good God to forgive him." The Treasury Department announced a resurgence of moonshining...