Word: oathing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...next day Senator Cummins administered the following oath to the Vice President...
Then Mr. Dawes administered a similar oath to the Senators alphabetically in groups of ten?all except Senator Blease, who fled the chamber, having asked the day before to be excused, since one of the House managers, Fred H. Dominick, had been his former law partner. Mr. Blease had declared...
...Valera's "policies" envisioned the entrance of the now abstaining Sinn Fein Deputies into the Dail Eireann (Irish Free State Lower House), "as soon as the Oath of Fealty to King George V [now required of all Irish M.P.'s] shall be abolished. . . . My purpose is that our Deputies shall then work from within toward the establishment of a Republic...
Therefore Mr. De Valera last week launched a new and as yet unnamed Irish party at Dublin. Said he to former Sinn Feiners who have "bolted" with him: "Let our keynote be abolition of the Oath of Fealty.** The ideal of the majority of the Irish people is still broadly a Republican ideal. . . . Ireland should be united, free and Irish. . . . The people can be banded together for the pursuit of that ideal if a reasonable program, based on existing conditions, is set before them...
...Dominion status" in the British Commonwealth, and the names of its institutions are unquestionably designed to sound as soothingly free as possible. Strictly speaking its "President" is virtually the "premier" of the resident British Governor General. Similarly, the "Oath of Fealty" is an attempt to make palatable on Irish tongues the traditional oath of allegiance...