Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...green, blue and gold-bordered reception salon of the Government Palace, the Archbishop of Paraguay administered the oath of office in the presence of 150 uniformed and full-dressed witnesses. President Morinigo, in a red & blue uniform with the red, white & blue band of office across his breast, read a speech which established continental solidarity, internal totalism and progress as the program of his regime. He led the procession (thoroughly guarded) to the Cathedral for Mass, returned to the Palace for a popular reception...
...United Press fell for the story that the U.S. Government was in possession of information concerning a "secret document": an alleged, Fascist-sounding oath by which De Gaullists swear eternal allegiance to their chief. The enlistment oath, printed in London last April, contained no such clause...
...Senator Mon C. Wallgren, aimed a side blow at the conduct of certain Air Forces officials "during the committee's investigation. These officials, apparently led by the Chief Inspector for the Army Air Forces, Lieut. Colonel Frank C. Greulich . . . attempted to intimidate witnesses ... made misstatements under oath...
...Theater No. 4, Harmony Church area, was heavy, and faintly scented with sweat. At the rear of the long, wooden building a dozen nervous girls fidgeted in their best cotton dresses, a wilted handful of tired parents watched with quiet pride. Slowly and earnestly the 159 men repeated the oath of office, then marched forward one by one to receive commissions in the Army...
...Tooth. Kehoe has become uneasily fond of the Nagas, but grins if anyone refers to their head-hunting as an old, forgotten custom. He has attended two head-hunting trials (involving the harvesting of 13 heads) in the border area where British law still reaches. Witnesses took oath by biting on a tiger's tooth (to prove they were stronger than tigers). The courts, baffled by native blandness, could do nothing but levy a general fine of 1,000 rupees each on the villages involved...