Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chief ceremony of the Philippines' transformation from territorial to commonwealth status was the inauguration of small, brown Manuel Luis Quezon to be the Philippine Commonwealth's first President. Most of the 15,000 official guests on hand to watch President Quezon swear his oath were influential brown-skinned fellow-countrymen in white suits and straw hats. But the guests whom President Quezon was happiest to see were the white-skinned envoys of the liberating Republic: Secretary Dern, Vice President John Nance Garner, 17 U. S. Senators, 26 U. S. Representatives, 34 U. S. newspapermen, to the last...
...medical society had an easy answer: the law forbade. Of three Buffalo clergymen of three different faiths, two expressed themselves in favor of euthanasia. In Washington, a U. S. Public Health surgeon declared that mercy killing was outlawed in this clause of the oath of Hippocrates: "If any shall ask of me a drug to produce death I will not give it nor will I suggest such counsel." In Kansas City, Mo., Dr. Logan Clendening (The Human Body), who likes to pooh-pooh the fears of hypochondriacs, said the question was outside the medical profession's province. In Chicago...
Announcing his adherence to the Oath Bill, Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, last night released photostatic copies of his sworn oath which revealed elaborate reservations. Mather added affirmation of his allegiance to the Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact, and to the Declaration of Independence, which, like the act states the right of peoples to alter their form of government...
...Mather repeated his opposition, which he has consistently maintained, to the spirit behind the statute, not to the oath itself. "Certainly as a teacher of geology," he said yesterday, "It is necessary for me to maintain cultural relations with Soviet geologists." This privilege he further retained in the reservations...
...Ogre's tongue. By a clear majority they want to silence the Communist Party in America. The students, 80% of them against 20%, wish to continue its right to plead its cause. Turning to another question, the Cantabrigians are found to favor the Teachers' Oath. Thus they at least suggest that they wish to prevent America's future leaders from drinking any potion that might possibly bring on a rash. The youths, on the other hand, by their preponderant opposition to the Oath, indicate that they want to be taught all there is to know. It is at least logical...