Word: sworn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Glass Courthouse. In Pontiac, Mich., 13 days after he was sworn in as probation officer for traffic offenders, Leo F. Coyle resigned, following the disclosure that in 1956, after he received one ticket for faulty headlights, one for running a red light and three for speeding, his license had been suspended...
...provinces last week came stocky, brash Pierre Poujade, convoyed by hundreds of his burly, leather-jacketed copains, and crying aloud against the "Jews and foreign interests" who had betrayed France in Algeria. Poujade was doing something he had sworn never to do: running for a seat in the National Assembly, which he calls "the biggest bor dello in France...
Pathet Lao is Prince Souphanouvong, a half-brother of the Premier, Prince Souvanna Phouma, and because both brothers have sworn fidelity to aging, gout-crippled King Sisavang Vong, the Laotians have been inclined to dismiss Pathet Lao as une affaire de famille. Since August the moonfaced, Paris-educated princes have been going about the capital of Vientiane arm in arm, sipping champagne together, and promising an early settlement of their "family affair." Says trusting Prince Souvanna Phouma: "My brother has never been a Communist, only a misled patriot...
...Knowland had called New York's new Senator Jacob Javits to Washington for the opening. Uneager to take his Senate seat until a reconvening New York assembly outfoxes Governor Averell Harriman and elects a Republican to succeed him as New York's Attorney General, Javits was not sworn in. But he kept within three minutes' hailing distance, on the chance that Lausche's vote and his own would throw the Senate into a 48-48 tie, to be broken the Republicans' way by Vice President Richard Nixon...
...Harris prayed that his charges be saved "from all compromise, which crucifies principle, and from all shoddy workmanship, which betrays the possible best, and from cowardly expediency, which is treason to the highest integrity." With the 33 other members beginning terms, he marched to the Senate well to be sworn in by the Vice President. Then came Lausche's moment. When Texas Democrat Lyndon Johnson proposed that Arizona's venerable Carl Hayden be elected Senate President Pro Tempore, Republican Bill Knowland rose, offered New Hampshire's Styles Bridges instead, called for yeas and nays on his amendment...