Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since the Greek Premier is sworn to uphold, protect and defend the Greek Republic, M. Tsaldaris wriggled out of that oath by announcing: "I see no great difference between the constitutional Monarchy of Greece as it existed up to 1924 and the Republic. . . . I have known King George for years. . . . He wants happiness for the Greek people...
...Press was willing to play dumb with Mr. Mclntyre's political faux pas, Republicans were not. Senator Gibson of Vermont, member of the Lobby Investigating Committee, promptly announced that he would ask to have Messrs. Mclntyre and Robert summoned to explain under oath their "relations" with Lobbyist Robinson and Associated Gas & Electric...
...This oath does not mean what it says, wily Premier Panayoti Tsaldaris was at pains to explain. The deputies, mostly henchmen of Premier Tsaldaris' so-called Government Party, were elected by Greeks who suspected M. Tsaldaris of being secretly Royalist but thought they could trust him to uphold the Greek Republic 53 demanded by the official oath. Explaining it glibly away, last week Royalist Tsaldaris declared: "The words 'Parliamentary Republic' do not need to be changed because a Republican Government is not necessarily without a King." The Tsaldaris Government next decided that between Sept...
...wake of Michigan, Georgia and Arizona, Massachusetts last fortnight passed a bill requiring every teacher and professor to swear allegiance to Federal and State Constitutions (TIME, April 15), thus brought to 19 the number of Red-scared states having teachers' oath laws...
...returned to the issue of Academic Freedom, framed a careful resolution. They proposed that NEA set up a committee of five-three of them classroom teachers. The committee would investigate dismissals of capable teachers, might even go to court to aid them; would fight such legislation as teachers' oath bills;* would cooperate with the Progressive Education Association, the American Federation of Teachers (A. F. of L. affiliate), the Civil Liberties Union, other "reputable" liberal organizations. On the last day of the convention the insurgents got their resolution on the floor. The Assembly passed it, thus establishing this policy...