Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...afternoon last week five girls and boys in their teens peered down from the Senate gallery and watched their papa escorted down the aisle, elegant in cutaway with red carnation in buttonhole. Vice President Garner pronounced the oath of office and proud Papa William Henry Smathers said, "I do." After hobbling along for 13 weeks with only 95 members, the U. S. Senate once more had its full membership...
...number and variety of issues they oppose. Not satisfied with merely crusading for an abstract, effervescent peace, the students have decided to direct their disapproval against war and the forces which make for war; compulsory military training in schools and colleges; the billion dollar war budget; teachers' oath laws and similar restrictions of American civil liberties; and finally, against the Fascist aggression in Spain...
...university are concerned he fails to see any close connection. "That interest can he impaired in ways too subtle to be vindicated, in any important degree, by the relatively crude mechanism of constitutional guarantees invoked in litigation. Courts are not barriers against mischief's like the teachers' oath acts...
Observers last night who could agree that the oath itself is inoffensive refused to construe the governor's speech as such. Considerable section of the writing makes a frankly "patriotic" appeal...
...action yesterday Hurley dealt a final blow to the three-year battle which educators, including Harvardians from President Conant down, have waged against the "Curley" oath...