Word: sworn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Prosecutor Wessel's strategy was to prove that the hoods had not told the truth, that their statements to police did not jibe with demonstrable facts and sworn testimony, and that in their similarity they clearly proved a conspiracy to thwart the law in a reasonable inquiry. In the early afternoon of Nov. 14, 1957, he contended, the racketeers spotted police around Barbara's place and promptly put together their common alibi; each just happened to be driving through Apalachin (from as far away as Los Angeles or Dallas or Cleveland) and just happened to drop...
...darkly handsome man standing by the fireplace. "Take charge, boy," he said, with a broad grin. "This is what you call the first team going in." A few minutes later, while President Eisenhower and the Pentagon's top brass looked on approvingly, Thomas Sovereign Gates Jr., 53, was sworn in as the nation's seventh Secretary of Defense...
...House, a bill for repeal, introduced last session by Rep. John V. Lindsay of New York, remains mired in a committee chaired by Rep. Graham Barden of North Carolina. Barden has sworn that he will never let the measure, or any similar one, reach the floor. Elder notes, however, that Elliott has shown Elder's letter urging repeal to Barden, so he feels that there may be some hope even in the House
Shortage of Dancing Girls. But once the two mayors were buckled in their C121 (Constellation) seats for the flight to Tyndall, the story of their disillusionment-as recorded in sworn statements by Air Force and civilian witnesses and bolstered by Air Force movies-read differently. First off, Mayor Fitzpatrick asked if there were a bar on the plane. Told that Air Force planes are not so equipped, the mayor said: "Well, boy, I've got my own bar." Soon. Healy and Fitzpatrick, after pouring drinks for some other passengers, finished off one fifth, then another ("Here...
...Officers Sworn...