Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nazi-controlled Paris press howled for just that, and castigated General Weygand for going no further "than an oath of loyalty to the Marshal." It was rumored that two Nazi Panzer divisions with 1,000 tanks had crossed from Spain to Spanish Morocco, ready to force Hitler's will, if necessary, on Vichy's North African forces...
...made a simple challenge: let the Legislature investigate itself. He would appear, testify under oath, bring witnesses, produce evidence. Hay, reading his notes by a flashlight held by his niece, Mary Hay, attacked "sandbag" bills...
...they would have to swear that they do not advocate violent overthrow of the Government. Whether they thought it was funny or not, the joke was on them. For two years Congress has written into various appropriation bills a requirement that Federal wage earners be required to take an oath of innocence in this regard...
...Legislative Appropriation Bill. The joker lay in Section 5. Written in by witch-hunters who wanted Library of Congress staffs to stand and declare themselves, by law the section had to cover Congress too, and all its clerks. Result at week's end: 53 Senators have taken the oath, more than 1,300 House Office Building employes. Representatives, who always approach such things with reluctant feet, have been backward, but they must take the oath by payday, Aug. 1, or they will get no money...
After a hard day, the doctor is comfortably settled with pipe & slippers-and the telephone rings. Does he answer the phone? Of course. But in the British Lancet last week, an anonymous doctor revealed a "valued little secret"-a deception not specifically forbidden by the letter of the Hippocratic oath...