Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...within two hours a special session of Parliament had been called to announce the formation of the Rumanian People's Republic under a tractable five-man "presidential council." It all went so quickly that one member of the new council was not even in town to take his oath of office. Contemporary history's prettiest paradox-a king by the grace of Communism-was ended...
...should take a moral stand, like Medicine, which comes right out and admits 1) that life is better than death, 2) that health is better than sickness, and 3) that the well-being of people is important. Conant suggested that the social sciences agree to a kind of Hippocratic oath which would state as their objective the doctoring of democracy. "The empiricism of the past may be a sufficient guide for the masters of a police state," he said, "but an open society with our ideals requires other instruments and a wider understanding of modern man." Having listened...
Polish Communists have not upset such traditions. They voted to keep the words "So help me God" in the oath of office for government posts. When they nationalized Poland's large estates, they exempted all church property. But they say privately: "The last fight will be with the church...
Futile as Teachers' Oath...
...futile as the old Teachers Allegiance Oath," was professor of Geology Kirtley F. Mather's description of the Barnes proposals. In 1935 a law was passed requiring teachers to sign endorsements of the U. S. Constitution. Mather, terming it "coercion" at the time, refused to sign...