Word: oathing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cosgrave's purpose was to force the split factions of famed Eamonn de Valera and Miss Mary MacSwiney to join forces and enter the Dail. This they have refused to do, alleging their unwillingness to take the oath of fealty to George V, required of every deputy before he can legally take his seat. At present Mr. De Valera stands at the head of 44 Fianna Fail or "Republican" deputies; and Miss MacSwiney is one of six deputies comprising the much blighted and withered Sinn Fein party to which De Valera formerly belonged. Thus, these 50 deputies if they...
...want it known, finally that under no circumstances whatever will Fianna Fail deputies take the oath...
Observers awaited eagerly the assembly of the new Dail. There was always the chance that Sinn Fein and Fianna Fail deputies would try to enter without taking the oath-a move often threatened never attempted, and sure to lead to many a cracked Irish crown. Sober-minded Irishmen hoped that Mr. Cosgrave would consent to carry on, as before, with the readily obtainable support of the "neutral" parties...
...definitely name him as having personally profited by the state fund deposit and loan, foresaw also the possibility of his enemies attempting to oust him from office on quo warranto proceedings. Such quo warranto (by what right) proceedings would have been based on the argument that Governor Small took oath as Governor while in possession of funds illegally secured during his term as treasurer, that, under such circumstances, he had no right to hold the office of Governor and should therefore be removed from it. If quo warranto action was instituted in an unfriendly court, the Governor might well find...
Engaged. Hamilton Eames, brother of Actress Clare Eames, nephew of famed Mme. Emma Eames de Gogorza, onetime Metropolitan soprano; to Marian Bull, granddaughter of Ainsley Wilcox of Buffalo, in whose house the late Theodore Roosevelt took the President's oath of office...