Word: sworn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...done in the past. In the past 16 years, for example, two House members were allowed to serve out their terms despite conviction for payroll padding, and a third served a four-month prison term for income-tax evasion, won re-election later that year and was subsequently sworn in. Not one of these offenders was censured, let alone expelled...
...occurred with remarkable frequency and in varying forms. I shall point up a number of others later on, as they appeared in his sworn testimony, his autobiography, and other documentary sources. Chambers' special manipulation of dates, names and other symbols included among its features a magical symbol of numerical alternates. From an examination into this area it became evident that Chambers either invented or exchanged real and imagined events. Most striking was the discovery of his manipulation of birth and death dates. For example, by substituting a birth date for a death date (or vice versa) he restored to life...
...stepped Danny Escobedo, 29 (TIME Cover, April 29), who has been kindly disposed toward the law ever since 1964's Supreme Court decision in Escobedo v. Illinois, voiding his murder confession on grounds that he was denied his rights to counsel. Since his parents are Mexican, Escobedo was sworn in as an interpreter and translated the Puerto Ricans' side of the case. A few minutes later, Danny was before the court himself, and the judge dismissed a disorderly-conduct charge stemming from a street brawl last March. That still left Danny with a problem: robbery charges involving...
...Mills and Fulbright took the stand and denied receiving a cent from Baker (Mills pointed out that he had had no opponent in 1962), Defense Attorney Edward Bennett Williams announced that he would stipulate without testimony that the others had received no money, and all were excused after being sworn. (Quipped Dirksen: "I am going to take the $4 witness fee and frame...
...should be lost because of a lack of research funds," saw to it over the years that literally billions of dollars in federal money were set aside for research into cancer, heart and other diseases; of a heart attack; in his Washington office, shortly before he was to be sworn in for his 14th term...