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Word: oaths (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before the grand jury, Killingsworth had testified under oath that Brownie Lollar was there, too. But on the stand, he could not remember saying that-not even when it was read back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALABAMA: It Sure Was Pretty | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

...idea was so appealing to New Jersey's state legislature that the bill went through unanimously last spring. It required all state officials and employees, schoolteachers and municipal workers to take a special oath of allegiance to the U.S. In addition, the bill provided that any political candidate who refused to take the oath would have "Refused Oath of Allegiance" printed below his name on the ballot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW JERSEY: The Right to Vote Wrong | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

...gaunt, wrinkled left-winger named James Imbrie, running for governor on the ticket of Henry Wallace's Progressive Party, decided to fight the law. Imbrie refused to take the oath, went to court to prevent the state from noting the fact on the ballot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW JERSEY: The Right to Vote Wrong | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

...state constitution, said the court, already requires an adequate oath. The loosely worded new law would deny New Jerseyites an essential constitutional right -"the right to select unworthy candidates, candidates who the legislature fears might bring ruin to the state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW JERSEY: The Right to Vote Wrong | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

...Love. The book is a series of lectures delivered under dramatic conditions. In 1934, as professor of systematic theology at Germany's University of Bonn, Barth was one of the first academicians to defy Hitler by refusing to take the oath of loyalty. As a result, he was barred from Germany, where most of his teaching and preaching had been carried on. In the summer of 1946, when Bonn's war-ruined university was reestablishing itself in a half-blasted castle, Theologian Barth was invited to return. Lecturing at 7 o'clock in the morning, "after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Credo | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

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