Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Swart, small General Ricarte is a legend in the Philippines. As commander of the province of Cavite in 1898, he dubbed himself "The Viper," fought valiantly against the U.S. army of occupation. Generalissimo Aguinaldo finally took the oath of allegiance to the U.S., but not General Ricarte. He fled to Japan...
...have not received any communication from Vargas since the entry of the Japanese forces into Manila, nor do I expect any from him now. But I feel certain that he will not do anything that would be contrary to his oath of allegiance to the United States...
Donald hitchhiked back home, went on a diet of fruit juice and soup, pounded his muscles, chopped down trees, sweated in a steam bath. Last week, 14 Ib. lighter, he took the Marine Corps oath-then rushed to a hamburger stand...
...Communist, Russian-born, 36-year-old William Schneiderman, secretary of the California Communist Party, was in danger of losing his U.S. citizenship. Two courts have held that Schneiderman should be deprived of citizenship because his oath of allegiance to the U.S., 14 years ago, was a fraud, since Communists' first allegiance is to the U.S.S.R. Schneiderman's appeal has reached the Supreme Court, will be argued there next month...
When a Moro goes juramentado, he takes a fanatic oath to kill as many Christians as he can before he is killed himself. He also frequently kills anyone else of his own faith (Mohammedan) who is handy...