Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jersey, also on the same day, Arthur Harry Moore's inauguration as Governor barely escaped tragedy when a photographer's flashlight bulb exploded almost in the new executive's face as he was taking the oath of office...
Sponsored by 27 journals was a petition: a "Declaration of an American Citizen." Because the Supreme Court decision in the Bland-Macintosh case held that a native-born U. S. citizen is obliged (as is supposed to be inherent in the oath of allegiance) to bear arms, the petition makes the following declaration: "I, a citizen of the United States, solemnly refuse to acknowledge the obligation which the Supreme Court declares to be binding upon all citizens, whether native-born or naturalized. I have not promised, expressly or tacitly, to accept an act of Congress as the final interpretation...
...month ago to consider negotiating voluntary wage reductions. Day later the Western managers met to discuss the same proposition. Then a national meeting of railroad presidents was called at the Biltmore in Manhattan. It started before noon, lasted until 5 p. m. There was plenty of operating department oath-swearing and table-pounding. By this time the impetuous Westerners ? stout Lewis Warrington Baldwin of Missouri Pacific, white-headed Lawrence Aloysius Downs of Illinois Central, bald James Edward Gorman of Rock Island?were for dropping the idea of negotiation, filing their notices at once and fighting the matter out with...
...currently believed that Fscism applies forms of pressure which would not be condoned outside of Italy to maintain its power. In the present case, the fact that college professors alone in the department of Italian education are required to take the oath is particularly injurious. It confirms the suspicion that the intention is not merely to insure support of Fascism, but to throttle the free investigation of political theory in the classroom...
...remains to be seen whether the League of Nations, acting upon the petition of the various professors, can prevail on Mussolini to withdraw the oath. Fortunately, unlike the dictators of past ages, he cannot be wholly indifferent of foreign opinion. Expediency may persuade him if other arguments fail. The Spanish Revolution indicates that the hostility of universities is no negligible factor in the fortunes of absolutism. But in any case, the petition of the Harvard professors, together with the protests of various European scholars, are admirable instances of the internationalism of genuine scholarship. Whether successful or not, such a gesture...