Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Noon-President Coolidge and Mr. Hoover enter the Senate chamber. The new Senate assembles. Charles Curtis takes the oath as Vice President, speaks briefly. All march out to the east steps...
...cover-picture of TIME, Dec. 24, was His Eminence William Henry Cardinal O'Connell, Archbishop of Boston. †Abusive oath deleted...
...August night among the Vermont hills less than six years ago-reporters in automobiles rushing over country roads; a knock on the door of a white farmhouse in the hamlet of Plymouth; oil lamps lit dispelling the darkness; telegrams read by their glow; a brief statement of mourning; an oath of office administered at 2:30 a. m. by a country notary public to his son, the thirtieth President...
...will note my father sold his stock in Insull companies before his appointment was announced and before he took the oath of office last July. Whoever wrote that article apparently had not investigated the facts. If he had looked into the matter and then persisted in printing the article it would seem that in all fairness, an explanation or apology, or both, would be in order, especially in view of my father's subsequent confirmation which took place today by a two to one vote...
...Atchison was never President of the United States. Polk was President until midnight (not noon, as Mr. Britt says) of March 3, 1849, and promptly thereafter Taylor became President. The Constitution provides, concerning the Presidents: "Before he enter on the execution of his office, he shall take the following oath. . . ." President Taylor took this oath at noon on March 5 because he had no occasion to enter on the execution of his office before that time. In contending that Taylor did not become President until he took the oath, Mr. Britt stops himself from claiming that Atchison ever became President...