Word: oathing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then Senator Frazier of North Dakota rose, said that Mr. Nye was at hand, asked that he be sworn in. Solemnly the old Senator led the new one down the aisle. An oath was sworn...
...Basil himself was then put on the stand: "I deny under oath that I committed the offense with which I am charged, or that I attempted to bribe the police officer who unwarrantably arrested me . . . I am writing a book dealing with vice conditions in the West End, and had gone to Hyde Park to gather data at first hand. I call the Court's attention to the fact that my works, Queer People and Diversions of a Prime Minister, are well known. . . As I entered the park I was accosted by a young woman, and we sat down upon...
Then he stepped off the stage. The induction of Mr. Walker was gradual. He took the oath of office three days in advance in order that there might be no hiatus in the mayoralty (his term technically began on the stroke of 12:00 on New Year's Eve). The ceremony was attended by some 200 friends. The mayor elect was an hour and a half late for the ceremony because he had been attending a funeral...
...front of the City Hall. The crowd was tremendous. As it surged around him he grinned: "Let me in, I want to go to work." Every room in the building was crowded. In one of the largest, crowded with 700 or 800 people, Mayor Walker took the oath a second time, then Mr. Hylan spoke. When he had done, the Mayor spoke, saying: "I, too, Judge Hylan, am very happy today." Then he began to read his prepared address. Before he finished a woman fainted in the crush. He stopped reading and said: "That is the substance of my message...
...Dublin, correspondents and cinema-cameramen roosted throughout the week near the Dáil Eireann, obstreperous lower House of the Irish Free State Parliament. The hours fled breathlessly because a certain bland clause in the Free State Constitution provides that every Irish M. P. must take an oath of allegiance to King George-which has caused Eamonn de Valera and 38 other elected Republican deputies to absent themselves from the Dáil in protest. Last week they were expected to appear at any moment. Rumor had it that they would force their way into the Dáil without...