Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mother, his only close relative. has died. Since then over 500 days have come & gone. Since then Farmer Mingo has stayed in jail. Last week he was still in jail because the jail commissioners, having received a petition from him to take the poor debtor's oath, were checking up to make sure that he really had no assets. And last week his fellow citizens were beginning to realize that it would have been cheaper for them to pay his $350 debt than to jail him, for at 75? a day, the town has already paid some...
...huge new German conscript Army which Adolf Hitler has been raising in violation of the Treaty of Versailles was ordered by the Realmleader to take its oath of loyalty to himself & Germany this week and thus come officially into being. This new German war machine, rapidly assembling last week, consists of some 170,000 professional soldiers and more than 200,000 conscripts who will soon swell to 500,000. Adolf Hitler, "Apotheosis of the Little Man," never rose above corporal's rank during the War and today lavishes unheard-of comforts on happy German soldiers. Crews of carpenters were...
Consure of a Harvard President for his stand on infant baptism, two attempts at forcing oath bills on the University, and a wartime cry from alumni to dismiss certain German facultymen were among incidents in Harvard's past mentioned by Samuel E. Morison '08, Historian of the Tercentenary and professor of History, addressing last night's anniversary celebration in Sanders Theatre...
...Another oath bill for Harvard was threatened in the 1740's as a punishment for Harvard indifference toward the evangelical revival, but it failed to pass. The Harvard Presidents, when Massachusetts was a Royal Province, were charged at their inauguration by the Royal Governor to preside 'with loyalty to our Sovereign Lord King George, and obedience to his laws...
...Harvard Law School, Professor Thomas Reed Powell, topflight authority on Constitutional law, was asked whether he would take the Massachusetts teachers' oath to support the Constitution (TIME, Oct. 14). Replied he: "Certainly I'll support the Constitution. The Constitution has been supporting me for 20 years...