Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After Speaker Rainey had sworn in the membership with one thunderous oath* and the President's message had been read, the House plunged headlong into H. R. 1491, "an act to provide relief in the existing national emergency in banking." So hastily had the bill been drawn up that no printed copies of it were yet available for members. Their only knowledge of what they were being asked to approve came from a clerk's sing-song reading of the lone text which still bore last-minute corrections scribbled in pencil. Chairman Steagall of the yet unorganized Banking...
Noon-Watch John Nance Garner take the oath as Vice President in the Senate chamber...
...Appear on the East front of the Capitol; take the oath as President from Chief Justice Hughes; deliver the Inaugural address; start back to the White House...
...spectacle with its bands and its banners will stir the blood of some 250,000 spectators. But in all the crowd no heart will pound with such pride as that of an erect, white-haired, hazel-eyed old lady sitting close to the new President as he takes the oath before the Capitol, looking over his shoulder on the reviewing stand. Few mothers have known the exaltation that Sara Delano Roosevelt will know as she watches her only son enter the White House...
Early this month President George Washington Hill of American Tobacco Co. (Lucky Strike) swore a mighty oath that he would run 10? cigarets out of business if he had to make them himself. Last week patrons of Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. stores throughout the U. S. could read a big sign behind the cash register: LUCKY STRIKE-CHESTERFIELD-CAMEL-OLD GOLD...