Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strike. Upon Labor are only two limitations: 1) no violence; 2) no fraud. The only way an employer involved in a labor dispute can get a Federal injunction will be to prove to the court that he has made "every reasonable effort" to settle the strike; to show under oath that unlawful acts have been committed or threatened against him and to convince the judge that failure to enjoin the strikers will do him "substantial and irreparable" injury. He must also file an adequate bond to recompense the strikers in case the injunction is quashed...
...order to become President, tall, stoop-shouldered, teacherish Mr. de Valera had to take, in writing, this oath...
...when inscribing this oath (required of all Irish Free State Deputies), Mr. de Valera said severely to the oath-clerk, "I am not taking any oath or giving any promise of faithfulness to the King of England. ... I am putting my name here as a mere formality...
...Dublin the first act of the de Valera Government was not to bring in a bill abolishing the oath to King George, as President de Valera has promised to do. To draft this bill would take a few days. But hot out to Arbour Hill Prison rushed the Free State's new Minister of Justice, James Geoghegan. At the prison he discovered "conditions" which he blamed upon ex-President Cosgrave...
...last hours as Kaiser, indecisive Wilhelm II asked General Groener whether he and other German officers would keep the oath they had sworn to their Emperor. Replied General Groener who today is Germany's Minister of Interior and Defense, "What is an oath, Your Majesty? It is only an idea...