Word: sworn
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...wished to terminate his ten years of Cabinet membership simultaneously with assuming his position in the Senate. When it became known that he would not be seated on the Senate's opening day, his resignation became momentarily ineffective, he still retained his secretariat. Mr. Doak was not sworn in as a recess appointee. Meantime, Messrs. Doak and Davis had gone through preliminary ceremonies for the newsreels in which the retiring official had presented his successor to the successor's wife as "the handsomest Secretary of Labor in American history." Acme News Pictures Inc. broadcast newspaper photographs...
Senate, Supreme Court and House remained oblivious to all this. After 20 minutes the Senate, having sworn its new members and appointed a committee to notify the President it was in session, adjourned. In the House, however, a rush of proposed legislation kept many a member in his seat. Evidence of inter-party truce (TIME, Nov. 17) was the presentation of an administration-backed $60,000,000 drought-relief appropriation bill by Democrat James Benjamin Aswell of Louisiana. Roy Orchard Woodruff of Michigan offered a bill to give the Federal Government jurisdiction over gangster murders resulting from illicit interstate negotiations...
...budget being too precariously balanced to meet this extra charge, the MacDonald Government tried to pigeonhole the bill, was suddenly knifed in the back by radical Laborite James Maxton (sworn foe of his Chief) who moved for im mediate action, hoping that the House would vote the pensions against Government protest, thus unseating the Cabinet. Dopesters declared that Scot MacDonald was saved from being ousted as Prime Minister solely by the striking of the hour agreed for adjournment...
...outgoing President of Brazil ordinarily presides when the incoming President is sworn. Last week, however, the outgoing President, Washington Luis (whose term expires Nov. 15) was still in jail, closely guarded by his revolutionary captors when it came time to induct the new provisional President, Getulio Vargas, No. i revolutionist (TIME, Oct. 13 et seq.}. In these circumstances there was no swearing in but a five-minute ceremony: Dr. Vargas signed a paper declaring that he is President. Nations which recognized him three days later: Italy, Portugal (Brazilians speak Portuguese), Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Uruguay. Two more days passed before...
...pounces upon Caryl. Powerless to prevent it, he sees his first opportunity to attract some notice as a pianist casually swept aside by his brother. Sebastian's motives are purely fraternal when he starts out to help Caryl find Fenella, the girl Caryl loves, the girl who has sworn eternal love to him. Caryl again sits by while Sebastian's fraternal motives are overcome by something warmer. After Venice, where his ambition has foundered, and the Dolomites, where the search for Fenella and Sebastian's conquest of her has taken place, Caryl goes to London. Sebastian follows...