Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Federal Trade Commission is made a registration office for all securities to be sold in interstate commerce. Registration fee: 1/100 of 1% of the value of the issue. Facts to be supplied the Commission under oath by all interested parties include a complete and detailed statement of the issuing company's capitalization, its stock setup, the purpose of the issue, bonuses and commissions to be retained by the underwriters and the amount to be returned to capital investment. To register a foreign government security the U. S. selling syndicate must state the object of the loan, its bonuses...
...summoned to the Feldmarschall's office, and Handsome Adolf meekly backed down. He was willing to call off the boycott, he realized its folly, but what could he do? Orders could not stop it, the Nazis would run wild. President von Hindenburg reminded his Chancellor of his oath to defend the rights of all law-abiding citizens. He threatened to declare martial law and abolish the Government. Then a compromise was reached: the boycott would be declared, but for nine hours on Saturday only. And it must be peaceful...
When it became apparent to the chairman of National City Bank that, even at the low rates of 1929, he would have to pay $500,000 income tax, he summoned his lawyers. When tax-day came he mailed his return to the Collector of Internal Revenue, with an oath that he owed the U. S. not a penny, since he had taken a capital loss of $2,872,000 in National City Bank stock, more than enough (with other deductions) to wipe out his year's income of $3,006,705.76-approximately $1,200,000 from salary & bonus...
...interested in mob psychology, the scene of the mighty Red Army at attention, repeating the Soviet oath after General Voroshiloff, will leave a lingering impression. Also the views of Red Square and the Kremlin have their inescapable dramatic impressiveness for anyone who is not oblivious of the importance of what is going on in Moscow...
Power to alter this national flag is not vested in the President, even by Article 48 which permits him to invoke many extraordinary powers. Therefore last week Old Paul broke his oath and violated the Constitution when he issued an edict triumphantly read to Germans over the radio at 2 p. m. by Chancellor Adolf Hitler...