Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Without even the formality of an oath Mr. McKee automatically succeeded to the $40,000 job of Mayor from his $25.000 position as President of the Board of Aldermen. The first day he arrived at City Hall by subway, worked eight hours in his shirtsleeves, took 35 minutes off for lunch alone at a soda-fountain restaurant. His job was not new to him; he had filled it often and well during the protracted junkets of fun-loving "Jimmy" Walker. A thrifty Scot, he promised to economize, to cut the $631,000,000 city budget to the bone. With...
Draping the Grand Cordon across his bosom, Provisional President Rodriquez hurried out to meet friends who were hurrying to tell him the good news. Exactly ten minutes after his election he stood before Congress, proceeded to take the oath : "I swear to observe and to have observed the political Constitution of the United States of Mexico and the laws emanating therefrom. I will loyally and patriotically fulfill the office of Provisional President of the republic, looking only and always to the welfare of the country. If I fail to do so, may the nation hold me responsible...
When he was almost two months old, Washington was sprinkled in the "orthodox Episcopal manner." At 33 he took oath to conform to the doctrine of the Church of England "as by law established." Throughout his life he was seen regularly in church though he did not often kneel in prayer or partake of communion. Washington's reputation, like that of such Deists as Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine and Benjamin Franklin, is one of coolness and moderation in religion. But through his time swept a hot blast of evangelism, chiefly in the Methodist and Baptist faiths. General Washington...
Even in Washington Jan. 20 is an inclement date for outdoor ceremonies. Weather charts reveal that its average temperature is 33° compared with 39° for March 4. Its precipitation is also higher. But not all March 4s are balmy. President Taft took the oath of office during an historic blizzard...
...Spartan pride in physical perfection, an Athenian confidence in their own Golden Age. The steady splendor of the ceremony that opened California's first Olympic Games last week was the expression of a feeling which oldtime Greeks would have understood. It ended in the quiet ritual of the Olympic oath, to "take part in the Olympic Games in loyal competition, respecting the regulations which govern them and desirous of participating in them in the true spirit of sportsmanship for the honor of our country and the glory of sport." Handsome Lieut. George C. Calnan of the U. S. Navy, selected...