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Legal opinion has been split on the application of the Teacher's Oath. Some lawyers believe that the Teacher's Oath is "promisory," binding the signer in his future actions, while others say it is simply an expression of present feeling and has no reference 'to subsequent actions...
...party faction that has been headed by U.S. Chief Justice Earl Warren and U.S. Senator William Knowland. Since there was no primary, there was no simple way to eliminate either of the candidates. Despite the official organization efforts in Lipscomb's behalf. Collier seems certain to split the vote seriously...
Capitalizing on the Republican split is Lawyer George L. Arnold, a breezy young (32) newcomer to the area, who voted in another Los Angeles congressional district in 1950. A son of Thurman Arnold (Franklin Roosevelt's trustbusting Assistant U.S. Attorney General from 1938 to '43) and a son-in-law of Columnist Drew Pearson (who has used his nationally syndicated column to discuss Arnold's candidacy), Democrat Arnold has all of his party's organization support. There is another Democrat, named Irving Markheim, in the race, but he is a chronic candidate, has little vote-pulling...
...scrimmages as in Saturday's big game. The seven linemen-roaring another guttural "Y-A-A-A-A-H-H-R-R-R"*-charged like bulls into a row of freshman defenders, who were specially padded, rather like picadors' horses, to withstand the shock. In the same split-second instant, a long-legged halfback named John Lattner sprang from his crouch, took the deft hand-off of the ball from his quarterback, and cracked through the right side of the line with the power of a runaway steer...
Robert F. Wagner, Jr. was elected Mayor of New York in the biggest Democratic city-wide landslide in eight years. He won with expected ease, piling up a margin of almost 2 to 1 over his nearest rival, Republican Harold Riegelman, in four of the five boroughs. They split evenly in the fifth. Liberal Party candidate Rudolph Halley, with 370,000 votes, was third behind Riegelman's 527,000 and Wagner...