Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which the majority held (5-2) that the Alabama State Democratic Executive Committee has a right to bar from the ballot any candidate for presidential elector who refuses to swear an oath to support the nominees of the Democratic National Convention...
...night, Inland Steel's President Clarence B. Randall spoke for the seized companies over another radio and TV hookup. He hit back as hard as he had been hit. He disputed Truman's "shocking distortion of facts" up & down the line. Cried Randall: Truman has "transgressed his oath of office ... abused the power which is temporarily his ... seized the private property of one million people without the slightest shadow of legal right . . . This evil deed, without precedent in American history, discharges a political debt to the C.I.O. . . Phil Murray now gives Harry Truman a receipt marked 'paid...
...question that past Presidents, in time of crisis, have stretched their vaguely defined constitutional powers. When defense production was threatened in 1941, Franklin Roosevelt seized aircraft and shipbuilding companies. A famous example was Abraham Lincoln's suspension of the writ of habeas corpus in the Civil War. "My oath to preserve the Constitution," he explained later, "imposed upon me the duty of preserving, by every indispensable means, that Government, that Nation, of which the Constitution was the organic law. Was it possible to lose the Nation and yet preserve the Constitution...
...like an outline for a religious pageant. Each reference to an archbishop or a priest signified an individual; each "ceremony" a place to be captured. At the final night meeting, in a house not far from Havana's all-important Camp Columbia army base, the plotters swore an oath of secrecy. Batista told the conspirators to check their watches against Radio Reloj, the Havana radio station that ticks off time signals day & night. The revolution would start at exactly 2:43 a.m. on March...
Nieman Fellow John Davies never could stomach working with women reporters. Even though he married one, he took a solemn oath that he would never have anything to do with them during working hours. The one time he broke this vow was on a day that shells were whistling over his head while his landing boat was pulling into the Inchon beachhead, and a sudden swerve sent a pretty young columnist flying into his lap. The somewhat embarrassed Davies recovered his equilibrium, however, and went on to become one of the top war correspondents, covering the Pacific campaign...