Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Republican Senator Patterson kept raking up the five bodies of the victims of Kansas City's year-and-a-half-old Union Station massacre. On the eve of election an inconsiderate grand jury indicted three Pendergast henchmen. The charge was perjury: two of them had denied under oath telling two detectives to "lay off this Union Station case," the third, a police lieutenant, swore he had not told county prosecutors that his first duty was not to Kansas City but "to the Democratic organization of which Mr. Pendergast is head...
...glory and the crown was to consist in swearing fealty to Adolf Hitler. Once the Realmleader had accepted their oaths, the Nazi prelates felt, other German Protestants would realize that the game of opposing them was up. Vastly potent to the Fuhrer's devotees is the mere acceptance of an oath by Adolf Hitler...
...even to Paul von Hindenburg was ever sworn such an oath as the Cabinet, at Adolf Hitler's behest, last week decreed all Federal ministers, State ministers and State governors must take. The Cabinet then arose and loudly swore...
...Realmleader, announced that Adolf Hitler now considers himself German Chief Executive for life (i.e. German emperor in all but name). Addressing the Berlin Civil Service Academy, Dr. Lammers advised them that "Cabinet ministers are now responsible only to the Leader and no longer to the Reichstag. The new fealty oath eliminates the possibility of a minister voting against the Leader...
...Roosevelt rode to the campus of the College of William & Mary, second oldest (1693) in the U. S.* On the stoop of its restored main building, designed by Sir Christopher Wrenn and Completed in 1697, the President sat in cap & gown while Publisher John Stewart Bryan of Richmond took oath as the college's 19th president...