Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...camp life. A Cyrus Leroy Baldridge drawing ("Peeling Spuds") was reprinted from Stars & Stripes. Pages of photographs showed enlistment lines, chow lines, tent lines, work lines. For the benefit of those who did not know what they swore to, the 237-word C. C. C. enlistment oath was reprinted. Local camp news appeared under such headings as " 'Sing in Rain' at Hills Grove," "Things 'Nice' at Allenton," "Camp Perkins Is Busy," "Two AWOLs Come Back." Offered was a $5 prize for the best nickname for C. C. C. workers to match...
...Yalera. President of the Irish Free State's Executive Council, wants an Irish Republic without bloodshed.* Until he can get it he rankles under "symbols" of British sovereignty. Such was the British flag which no longer flaps over Dublin's Government buildings. Such was the resounding oath of "allegiance" to His Majesty George V, his heirs and successors by law, required of all Irish Free State members of Parliament. Last week Eamon de Valera got rid of that too, despite a stone around his neck and a yapping pack at his heels. The stone is the Irish Seanad...
...successful copywriter in a London agency. More than that, she is a member of London's famed Detection Club, an informal organization for promoting honesty and high literary standards in fictional crime-solving. "No Mumbo-Jumbo, Jiggery-Pokery, Death Rays, not even Trap Doors." This, sworn on the oath "as you hope to increase your sales," is part of the ritual of the Detection Club, devised by such members as Anthony Berkeley, Agatha Christie, G. K. Chesterton. Year ago appeared The Floating Admiral, joint production of 13 members, a chapter by each. But most of the infrequent and irregular...
...work in three years. An Army doctor listened to Fiore's heart, thumped his chest, looked down his throat, passed him as physically fit. Fiore Rizzo signed a blank authorizing the Government to pay $25 of his $30 monthly wage to his family, swore a 250-word oath which he did not fully understand and was shipped off to an Army post near New Rochelle as the first recruit in the Civilian Conservation Corps...
...Larson, the airplane pilot who only last month flew from the Akron to shore in the Canal Zone to visit his wife; among them Lieut. Wilfred Bushnell, co-winner of last year's International Balloon Races in Switzerland, and youthful Lieut. George C. Calnan who took the Olympic oath for all U. S. entrants in last year's Olympic Games; among them Rear Admiral Moffett, the vigorous, 63-year-old seadog who commanded the U. S. S. Chester during the U. S. occupation of Veracruz in 1914, and who later became the virtual custodian of the Navy...