Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...down. Pale but determined, Mr. Baldwin then asked for "a free hand in determining the party's fiscal policy." All in favor were to signify by raising their right hands. Short-sighted Leader Baldwin peered about the hall. "Carried unanimously!'' he announced at last, drew an exclamation resembling an oath from Baron Beaverbrook...
...week, paraphrasing Herr Hitler's famed threat (TIME, Oct. 6). "What we want is to create political common sense! If anyone believes we must keep quiet and accept disorder and window breaking, then he may as well know-and this is no mere phrase-that I take an oath that physical power will not be only on the side of the others. Whoever imagines he can attack republican institutions will learn that ruffians must be dealt with by ruffian methods...
...Hoover to send a message of congratulation on the civic work done by Americans of the Lutheran faith. But in the actual message which President Hoover sent to them, for the celebration of Reformation Sunday [Nov. 2], the President clearly violates the spirit, if not the letter, of his oath of office as President of the United States...
...When he returned to the capitol, he said to pretty little Miss Alice Lee Grosjean, his hazel-eyed, auburn-haired, 24-year-old confidential secretary: "Miss Grosjean, write out a commission appointing Miss Alice Lee Grosjean Secretary of State, effective at once." An hour later Miss Grosjean took the oath of office, telephoned her parents at Shreveport that she was "just thrilled to death." Thus did Louisiana get its first female Secretary of State (salary...
...monuments will survive the great Lord Chancellor: i) his masterly modernization of a great body of archaic statutes, enacted as the "Law of Property Act of 1922" ; 2) the Constitution of the Irish Free State which he worked out with Michael Collins and to which he contributed the ingenious "Oath of Fealty," having discovered that Irish Parliamen tarians would choke rather than swear an oath of allegiance to George V. Matter of fact fealty implies a lower grovel than allegiance...