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...compete fairly and to the best of their abilities. Modern Olympic athletes also have an oath, to recite which the U. S. committee selected Jack Shea, 21-year-old Dartmouth sophomore, speedskater and son of a Lake Placid butcher. While the other athletes raised their right hands in assent, Skater Shea solemnly assured 5.000 spectators: "We swear that we will take part in the Olympic Games in loyal competition, respecting the regulations which govern them and desirous of participating in them in the true spirit of sportsmanship for the honor of our country and for the glory of sport." First...
...Assent of George V to most British Parliamentary bills is still given in archaic Norman French "La Roy Ia Valt...
...report was purest fiction, but there was nothing for fleshy Ambassador Walter Evans Edge to do but go over to M. Laval's office in the Ministry of the Interior and invite him informally to Washington. Last week a formal invitation followed the French Cabinet's formal assent to the journey. Ambassador Edge again drove to the Minister of the Interior, this time with six silver inkstands, gifts from himself and Secretary of the Treasury Mellon to Premier Laval and colleagues "in commemoration of the friendly collaboration following President Hoover's moratorium proposal-Paris, July...
Therefore the commission suggested (Parliament must vote on all such matters) that thoroughgoing assent to the Thirty-Nine Articles no longer be required of priestly candidates. In other words the commission would chip and rub smooth the 39-faceted Rock of the Church of England, to ease the Anglican way to Heaven...
...Insurgents' frank desire for an extra session of Congress lent realism to the threat of Democratic Leader Robinson to force one unless his $25,000,000 Federal food fund for Drought sufferers was accepted by the Administration. If Congress-rejected this proposal, Senator Robinson, confident of Insurgent assent, warned Republican leaders: "You can stick your appropriation bills up-on the shelf." Later they helped Senator Robinson attach his relief plan to the Interior Department appropriation bill where they vowed it would stick in spite of President Hoover's objections...