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Equally wistful was another unsworn in the Senator, Rush Dew Holt. He sat bemused in the back of the chamber. Only one thing stood in the way of his casting votes in the body to which the people of West Virginia elected him - the U. S. Constitution. That old document says inflexibly: No person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the age of 30 years...
...oaths of personal fealty. The whole Reichswehr from privates to generals cried "I swear by God this holy oath!" (TIME, Aug. 13). So has the Navy, the brownshirt Storm Troops, black-pantalooned Special Guards, the police. Finally last week Realmleader Hitler decided to take no further chances on the unsworn loyalty of the Germans who now know him best, his Cabinet...
...board, NRA spent over 1,200 hours on the drafting of the code, heard 206 witnesses and obtained a code acceptable, not only to the industry, but approved by all the advisory boards of NRA. The board acted solely on the basis of a disorderly mass of unsworn and largely false testimony of a few malcontents, covering only eight out of 288 subdivisions of the code, and arrived at sweeping conclusions founded on obvious ignorance of the code, of the industry and the law. In sending the report to the White House General Johnson used his best invective...
...Commerce building. President Charles Gates Dawes. swearing at the bright lights, and two of the three civilian directors were sworn in before a battery of cameramen. Director Jesse Jones tossed his commission gaily in the air. tried to catch it. missed. Director Wilson McCarthy, the last appointee, was still unsworn when the R. F. C. board sat down to its first formal meeting and tried to talk above the din of hammering, plastering, carpet-laying and furniture-moving...
Mitchell Himself. At last Colonel Mitchell himself came to the stand. The Court informed him of his rights. He could: 1) be silent; 2) make an unsworn statement which the court would consider; 3) be sworn and be questioned and cross-questioned. Colonel Mitchell chose the last course. He was sworn and his lawyer, Congressman Frank Reid, questioned him, bringing out his service record, how he had served in France, been decorated, thanked by General Pershing, etc. He then began to testify concerning the things he had recommended for the Air Service which higher officials had not carried...