Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Council House the Constituent Assembly heard Mountbatten take the oath as Governor General.†"Regard me as one of yourselves," he told them, "devoted wholly to the furtherance of India's interests." Then he swore in the new Indian Government. Messages of congratulation from over the world were read. The most original was a greeting in verse from Chinese Ambassador Lo Chia-luen. It read...
...look like a formidable adversary for Maine's portly, assured Owen Brewster. It was because of Senator Brewster, the chairman of the committee, that Howard Hughes was there. For two weeks they had shot at each other in the newspapers. Now their duel was to be resumed under oath...
...Trick-Shot Artist." Back in the witness chair, Airman Hughes took off again. In scrawling longhand he had written a statement and he read it challengingly: "The public has witnessed two men getting up under oath and saying things which contradict each other. ... It stands to reason one of us is telling something which is not the truth. I have been reprimanded for using the word liar, so I shall try to avoid using the word...
Among his most cherished recollections is that of watching Abraham Lincoln take the oath of inauguration at the beginning of his first term as President in 1861. He was but 15 years old at the time...
...nominated and elected I could not, in these times, refuse to take the inaugural oath, even if I knew I would be dead in thirty days...