Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prayed: Almighty God, for the sake of this people, and of all peoples, lift those who bear authority among us above the claims of class. . . . Make them in truth the resolute servants of the common good. Neat, grey Harry Truman, onetime Senator from Missouri, stepped forward and took the oath as Vice President...
...placed his right hand on his old family Bible, on the same page where it has rested at five previous inaugurations†: the 13th Chapter of 1st Corinthians, which ends: And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. His repetition of the oath, after it had been intoned by Chief Justice Harlan Fiske Stone, was clear and firm, ending with the familiar so help...
...idea was first suggested by popular, doughty General Arnaldo Azzi. He urged that the Royal Italian Army should be reformed, drop its oath of allegiance to the House of Savoy, change its name to Esercito Nazionale (National Army). For his pains the General was retired...
...quislings attempted to thrust Norway's police, schools and courts into the Nazi mold, the voice of the Church was lifted again & again in protest. Then, shortly before Christmas 1940, the quisling Ministry of Police issued an order revoking the clergy's oath of silence. This oath, guaranteeing the Lutheran clergy's right to preserve their parishioners' confidences, as Catholic priests preserve the secrets of the confessional, was Norway's "Magna Carta" of conscience. The seven bishops of Norway prepared to act. In a letter addressed to Minister of Church and Education Ragnar Skancke, they...
...ling wore his hand-me-downs) when the Revolution of 1911 broke out. "Uncle" Sun was not even around. He was in a Denver, Colo. restaurant, collecting funds from Chinese sympathizers in the U.S. But by November 1911, he came back to China. Two months later, he took the oath as the Republic's first President...