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Arguing constitutional questions for the defense was Paul A. Freund, Charles Stebbins Fairchild Professor of Law, who was specially sworn in as an attorney for yesterday's hearings, Possibly a quarter of the small audience in Federal Court came from the Law School to hear...
Diplomats from 51 nations gathered in the flower-bedecked Hall of Mirrors ia Havana's Presidential Palace last week to see General Fulgencio Batista sworn in as President of Cuba. It was the cheerful strongman's third inauguration as Cuba's chief of state. He had made himself President for the first time in 1940, after running the country for seven years as a military dictator. Out of power from 1944 to 1952, he then took over again in a military coup, adopted the title of Provisional President. Last year, eager to drop the "provisional...
Four other state governors were inaugurated last week: Texas. Governor Allan Shivers, sworn in for his third full term, quoted from the Book of Psalms. "So teach us to number our days," said Shivers, who says that he wants to retire after this term (ending in 1957). Wealthy and still young (47), he ran partly so that he could lead a con servative Texas delegation to the 1956 Democratic convention. He helped swing Texas to Ike in 1952, but may now make peace with new Democratic National Chairman Paul Butler. Shivers has spent more for schools and hospitals than...
...cutaway, as though feeling for pockets. When the crowd roared, he drawled: "I forgot it was one of those longtail jobs. Just every four years is all I'm used to wearing it." South Carolina. With no parade, ball or fanfare, George Bell Timmerman Jr., 42, was sworn in as governor by his father, a federal judge. His oath of office included a promise that he would not fight a duel while in office. He replaced aging (75) Jimmy Byrnes, formerly governor, Secretary of State, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Director of War Mobilization and U.S. Senator. Timmerman, who served...
...preserve order in its plant and to protect its other employees . . . against the same danger and the possibility of 'sabotage, force, violence' . . . The courts of this country, by making such an order [to reinstate Mrs. Walker], would be but aiding toward destruction of the Government they are sworn to uphold...