Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ohio State University's 2,640 faculty members and 4,000 other employees faced a choice between signing an anti-Communist oath or getting fired. By a 6-1 vote, the trustees had approved a resolution by Board Member (and Brigadier General) Carlton S. Dargusch, 47, wartime deputy director of Selective Service. General Dargusch had heard "widespread" rumors of Communism on the campus and thought that now was the time for teachers to "come forward and be counted." The Cleveland Press denounced the project as "hysterical libeling of a whole faculty . . . [The oath] won't reach the liars...
...Oath of Office. The State Department had requisitioned five floors for ECA in Washington's new Maiatico Building on Connecticut Avenue. From Capitol Hill Congress watched jealously, suspicious of State's activities, determined to squash any signs of State Department influence over ECA. House Appropriations Committee Chairman John Taber was already complaining that State had loaded ECA with "expensive furniture." Hoffman was beginning to get an idea of some of the pitfalls...
Precisely at 10 on Friday morning, Hoffman stood in the Oval Room of the White House. Wearing the blue suit he had worn to Japan-the only suit he had taken along and which he had worn ever since-he took the oath of office, watched by a beaming Harry Truman. Then he went to a meeting of the Cabinet (his job carries Cabinet rank), met reporters again and sortied up to Capitol Hill...
Warns Beard: "If these precedents are to stand unimpeached, and to provide sanctions for the continued conduct of American foreign affairs, the Constitution may be nullified by the President, officials, and officers who have taken the oath, and are under moral obligation to uphold it. For limited government under supreme law they may substitute personal and arbitrary government-the first principle of the totalitarian system against which, it has been alleged, World War II was waged-while giving lip service to the principle of constitutional government...
...campaigned with an effectiveness that surprised even his closest friends. Like many a candidate before him, he promised to clean up polluted streams and provide decent facilities for the state's mentally ill. But as soon as Big Jim took his oath, he began to do something about these promises. He asked the legislature for $140 million to spend on conservation and public health. To raise the money, he suggested increasing cigarette taxes, imposing a new tax on soft drinks and reinstating a tax on capital stocks...