Word: oathing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...habitual command betrayed his lineage, arrived last week at Bombay, India. Some weeks before he had taken leave of the King-Emperor at London, had left that monarch to endure his well known bronchial affliction amid the damp of England. At Bombay, the arriving Briton took the oath of allegiance as Viceroy of India, then he prepared to whirl inland to Delhi, the Imperial Capital. At Delhi, where the new Imperial city is rapidly being transformed by British architects into an earthly paradise, the stalwart Englishman will shortly begin to reign "in the name of the King." For five years...
This will the first occasion on which Mencken has spoken since he took his oath not to speak in public. Last night was to have been the first time, but a conference with his publishers detained him. Mr. Hays, speaking for Mr. Mencken, took as his subject "Free Speech in America," and explained the workings of the prejudices which operate to make a farce of the principle of Free Speech in this country...
...Significance. Observers noted with interest that Mr. de Valera was defeated while opposing the extreme die-hards of his party. He was advocating that "when the Oath of Fealty to the King [required of all Irish M. P.'s] shall be abolished, then Sinn Feiners should cease to abstain from the Dail [Parliament], enter it and work toward the establishment of a Republic...
...radio to all Germany by the great Koenigswusterhausen Station. Then came the triumphant clang of the clapper itself, followed by the roar of the crowds. "Deutschland! Deutschland ueber Alles!" they chanted, and then joined in the old hymn "Grosser Gott, wir loben Dich." Lifting their hands they took an oath to German unity proposed by Herr Adenauer, Ober-Burgomaster of Cologne. From President von Hindenburg at Berlin came a message which the Herr Ober-Burgomaster read amid acclaim: "At midnight the hour of freedom strikes for the first zone of the Rhineland. . . . May the day of freedom soon dawn over...
...less. Mr. Davis quoted John Marshall: " 'An ignorant, corrupt and de pendent judiciary is the worst affliction any people can suffer. No man who is inadequately paid can be independent in thought.' "If the present salaries are to be continued, judges should be required to take the oath of celibacy so as not to expose their dependents to the hardships which such salaries entail...