Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Saud's orders to fight off Feisal, invariably stood at attention and gave him the royal salute. Finally Feisal sent word that unless Saud dismissed the Royal Guard and ceased all provocative behavior within six hours, he would consider himself freed of any further obligation under his oath to respect Saud's kingship. The King promptly caved in. The Royal Guard, irritated and rebellious, was ordered back to barracks, and the royal decree dismissing Feisal from office was never uttered-for the obvious reason that no one would have paid any attention...
...newly made flags decorated storefronts and streetcars. The midnight curfew was lifted for the day, and 5,000 prison inmates were released on amnesty. In a bone-chilling drizzle before the national capitol building, 15,000 shivering spectators watched former military Strongman General Park Chung Hee, 46, take the oath of office as South Korea's fifth civilian President. Promising never "to permit the resurgence of dictatorship under any disguise or pretext," Park said: "The bright morning of the new republic has dawned. Let us put depression, melancholy, confusion and pessimism behind us and create a new history...
...fear of, the Rothschilds. Amschel became treasurer of the German Confederation, and Jakob the Austrian consul in Paris. Nathan's son Lionel was elected to the British House of Commons four times, but four times Parliament refused to seat him because he would not swear a Christian oath. Parliament finally gave in, and Lionel sat from...
...political chicanery of President Johnson in asking Congress to put over the Kennedy legislative program in toto, regardless of its merits, or lack thereof, as a "living memorial" to the dead President. Johnson, in effect, asks Congressmen who have opposed certain measures to set aside both conscience and Constitutional oath so that the Democratic Party can make capital of the assassination...
...through planning," but insisted that private enterprise would receive the greatest possible initiative. Both sides also agreed to limited controls overspeculation in urban real estate, gradual abolition of sharecropping and raising tenant farmers' share of the profits from 53% to 58%. The agreement also included a political loyalty oath: the partners promised not to join in Parliament with either the Communists on the left or the free-enterprising Liberals, Monarchists and neo-Fascists on the right. But outside Parliament, on the local level, the Socialists are still free to collaborate with their old Communist allies. This could become particularly...