Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wary Governor Long was careful never to leave the State unaccompanied by Dr. Cyr. Last week Governor Long was in New Orleans. Lieutenant Governor Cyr was at his home in Jeanerette. Suddenly one night Lieutenant Governor Cyr left home, drove to Shreveport, had a deputy court clerk administer the oath of office as Governor. Then he wrote Governor Long a letter...
...Sir?This is to advise you that I have taken the oath of office as Governor of the State of Louisiana and have been inducted into office, and, under the Constitution of Louisiana, you have no further right to claim possession of the Governorship or exercise any functions thereof. I therefore demand of you that you immediately surrender the office, its archives, and all that appertains to said office and divest yourself of the appearance of chief executive of Louisiana...
...militia, but kept highway and city police on guard. Explained the Governor: "I was afraid he would try to seize the executive mansion and frighten my wife and children." Then he issued a manifesto declaring his henchman, Senate President (pro tern.) Alvin 0. King, lieutenant governor. "Taking the oath as Governor ends Dr. Cyr. He is no longer lieutenant governor and he is now nothing...
...this point another "governor" appeared. He was one Walter L. Aldrich of Shreveport. Mr. Aldrich was out of a job. So he went before a notary public and took the oath of office as governor, "just for the hell of it." Said he: "All good lawyers know that any one may take possession of, and retain, abandoned property...
...Clarence True Wilson, goateed general secretary of the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals, made speeches in St. Joseph and Kansas City, Mo. Said he: "Legion conventions are planned ahead of time as drunken orgies in defiance of the laws the men as soldiers had taken an oath of allegiance to support. . . . The ex-soldier who will [disobey the law], and practically all of them did in Detroit, is a perjured scoundrel who ought not to represent the decency of the flag under which he fought. . . . There was a marked absence of the sober, well-behaved typical American...