Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Progressives in the Senate, devoted to Senator Cutting, hotly resented the Administration's efforts to displace him through the Chavez candidacy and subsequent contest (TIME, May 20). This week, as Senator-Designate Chavez reached Vice President Garner's desk, after marching down the aisle to take his oath, the only Progressives present-Senators La Follette. Norris, Johnson, Nye and Shipstead-ostentatiously rose, stalked out of the chamber, returned when the ceremony was over...
Ending the Solemn Requiem Mass, Alexander Cardinal Kakowski, Archbishop of Warsaw, faced the nave, cried: "We herewith take a solemn oath to love our motherland as only you, Marshal Pilsudski, loved...
William Butler Yeats has never been crowned Laureate of Ireland, but he is more truly Ireland's Bard than Masefield is England's. When a Dubliner stops his chatter and raises his right hand as if to take an oath, his companions know that he is about to quote the words of William Butler Yeats. Nearing three score and ten (he will be 70 on June 13), Poet Yeats has written enough and well enough in his long life to satisfy most men. But few poets are willing to die before their time; though his Muse...
...echoes are purged of Redness by a voice whose patriotism is matched only by its volume-the voice of one Roberta Keene Tubman, leading America's Good-Will Union* in "The Star-Spangled Banner" on the steps of the Sub-Treasury where George Washington took his inaugural oath April 30, 146 years...
...they would climax a mass meeting in Mandel Hall by parading around the Midway. They paraded one block before a tiny band of students blocked their way, called them Communists (see p. 30), pelted them with eggs and stink bombs. Routing their adversaries, the pacifists chanted the Oxford peace oath: "We refuse to bear arms for our country in time...