Word: oaths
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This neat bit of doggerel by Jack Tarver (Macon Telegraph) passed from mouth to mouth in Georgia last week. But to no avail: Governor Gene Talmadge, who has taken his bounden oath to drive all foreigners* out of the Cracker State, won his first victory and expelled a "foreigner," Iowa-born Walter Cocking, dean of the College of Education at the University of Georgia. Talmadge charge: that Cocking dared to hope that white and Negro teachers might study together at a graduate school (still in the idea stage) proposed near Athens (Ga.). Ten of the State's 15 regents...
Next post she wangled him-"on Richard's solemn oath that he would act with 'unusual' prudence"-was the consulship at Damascus . . . "the dream of my childhood ... I am to live amongst the Bedawin Arab chiefs; I shall smell the desert air; I shall have tents, horses, weapons, and be free. . . ." They arrived with a museum load of African, South American and Indian bric-a-brac and five dogs-to which they soon added twelve horses, three goats, a camel, a snow-white donkey, a pet lamb and a baby panther (which the horrified peasants poisoned...
...order of the exercises was as follows: introductory remarks, Captain G.N. Barker, U.S. Navy, Professor of Naval Science and Tactics Harvard; remarks, Doan A.C Hanford of Harvard College; presentation of prizes; administration of the oath of office, by Lieutenant Commander Leslie K. Pollard, U.S. Navy; presentation of commissions and address, by Mr. Adams...
...record shows that Holt lacked only about six months of being old enough to take the oath as a Senator when he was elected. John H. Eaton, a Senator from Tennessee, was born on June 18, 1790; went to the Senate on Sept. 5, 1818. This shows that he went to the Senate when he was almost two years under the constitutional age of 30. Eaton, husband of Peggy O'Neale, the 'Gorgeous Hussy,' was the youngest man ever to hold a seat in the U.S. Senate...
From Berlin there were prompt reports that General Tsolakoglou's new Government would be "welcomed." But prominent Greek Orthodox clergymen refused to swear in Tsolakoglou, and he finally took his oath before a lowly priest...