Word: affidavit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...five glassy-eyed locksmiths in the dock (three generals, two admirals) then heard Colonel Taylor read a damning affidavit by one of their own clique. Its author was Field Marshal Werner Eduard Fritz von Blomberg, who had been German War Minister until 1938, when he was given the boot, ostensibly for marrying a prostitute. Wrote Blomberg: ". . . There was no reason to oppose Hitler since he produced the results which [the generals] desired...
...spite of Surgeon General Thomas Parran's efforts, the national fight against venereal disease has not been going well. Syphilis last year was up 21%; gonorrhea, 28%. Thirty states now require a Wassermann test of prospective brides and grooms, three more of grooms, three others an affidavit of freedom from infection. But these reach only a small proportion of the whole population...
...these states where the payment of a poll tax is required, the tax must be paid, or if already paid, the receipt or affidavit of its loss must be forwarded with the postal card. Minimum age for voting stands at 21 years, with the single exception of Georgia, where 18 years will suffice...
...girl was a well-known prostitute; the acts had been committed with her consent, she had been paid for her compliance. They identified the lieutenant as Robert L. Engels and said that the testimony as to whether the soldiers had threatened him or not "was in dispute." In an affidavit Loury declared that Engels had simply bowed...
Major Horace E. Dodge Jr., auto heir, was characterized as "a positive detriment to the war effort" in an affidavit filed in Manhattan by his third wife, Martha ("Mickey") Devine, ex-Ziegfeld beauty. She wanted a separation and $60,000-a-year alimony. She said Dodge had once told her: "This is a war as to who will rule the world, between Adolf and Joe, and my vote is for Adolf...