Word: sworn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sworn in last week as the junior U.S. Senator from Wisconsin: Edward William Proxmire...
...article that filled half of Pravda and was broadcast lengthily over Radio Moscow, the corn-belt commissar cockily sounded off on art, literature, ideology -and Georgy Malenkov. Khrushchev charged that the man he ordered off to central Asian exile last July had "fallen under the complete influence of the sworn enemy of the people and the party, the provocateur Beria," and become the late secret-police boss's "shadow and tool." Said Khrushchev: "Holding a high position in the party and state, Comrade Malenkov not only did not hold Stalin back, but with great skill made...
...while Frankie was at Columbia (Miller produced statistics in an effort to disprove the charge). In his telegram last week, Sinatra stated that Miller, Frankie's longtime bogey, had admitted accepting "large sums of money" from writers whose songs he recorded. Sinatra quoted Miller's words from sworn testimony: "Bob Merrill [responsible for If I Knew You Were Coming, I'd 've Baked a Cake and other hit tunes] would bring all the songs to me first. After the songs were a hit I got a check from his royalties to me. It amounted...
...accursed gold of Dongo has claimed another victim," mourned Presiding Judge Agostino Zen. a longtime friend of Aldrighetti. "I must declare a mistrial." It would be months before all the witnesses could be reassembled and new jurors sworn in to go at it all over again...
...hard-up Depression time, and Dick borrowed $1,000 on a life insurance policy, got hold of a battered Oldsmobile coupé to go campaigning 40,000 miles across the state and got elected. He was sworn in by his father, the chief justice (appointed) and then began to rack up such a record of efficiency and integrity-he cut 102 state departments, bureaus and commissions to 17, even dropped his father from two patronage jobs in the state university system-that he was able the next year to run for U.S. Senator and win. In January 1933 Dick Russell...