Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Louisiana State University stadium (built by Huey Long) rode smiling Citizen Jones. Solemn-faced, he put his hand on a Bible opened to Exodus, pointed a finger at the Commandment which says, "Thou Shalt not Steal," raised his other hand and took the oath as Governor of Louisiana. At that, 50,000 people applauded, fell upon 1.000 barbecued beeves, 130,000 foot-long sandwiches, downed gallons of lemonade...
...That oath, sworn in a memorv of sac rifice and bloodshed, gradually soured into a disgusted resolve. The Allies didn't pay their war debts, Uncle Sam became Uncle Shylock, the country heard that the holy crusade had been waged to make good J. P. Morgan's loans, that Our Buddies were the pawns of the munitions-makers, that the Road to War was paved with baloney; the blood had been shed not by heroes, but by suckers...
Dorgan, the father of the Massachusetts Teachers' Oath bill and chief opponent of the Russell appointment, indicated that the suit will probably he filed in the equity courts. He has built up his case around the allegation that Russell's teachings will corrupt students' moral views...
...stated, Harvard's position is unassailable. But across the Charles stands Thomas Dorgan, author of the teachers' oath law, who refuses to accept that position. He points to a clause in the state constitution which calls on Harvard teachers to dose their pupils with correct moral principles. On the grounds that Russell's appointment violates that clauses, Dorgan is seeking to block by court action his appearance here...
...required a pledge from each foreign missionary who wished to labor in the ever sunlit Empire vineyard that he would "do nothing contrary to, or in diminution of, the authority of the lawfully constituted Government in the country to which I am appointed." U. S. Methodists signed this oath with no twinge of conscience. In British India they have a large stake: 334 missionaries, 256 churches, 106,237 members, a 1939 budget of $857,479. Last autumn, when Britain entered World War II, it declared that India went with it. To some militantly pacifist missionaries, this declaration ran smack athwart...