Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...looking forward to this fight," said Sir Alec Douglas-Home last week. "I'm almost spoiling for it." He did not have long to spoil. Next day, as Parlia ment reassembled, shouting, leaping Tory backbenchers cheered lustily while the newly elected member for Kinross took his oath as an M.P. and moved into his place for the first time on the government's front bench. Pulling out a small red and gold ballpoint pen, Douglas-Home hunched down in his seat and scribbled furiously on slips of paper for the next 42 minutes while Labor Party Leader Harold...
...damn him. The rest of us have boys who go into the Army and Navy as privates and ordinary seamen and dig latrines and swab decks, and his scamps go in as lieutenant colonels and majors and spend their time off getting medals in Hollywood ... I took my oath to defend the Constitution of the United States and that's what I'm going to do. And then we're 'letting the soldiers down' when we refuse, are we? Why those bastards! Just a bunch of thimble-riggers, that's what they are, them...
Almost unnoticed amid the coups and chaos around the hemisphere, one country last week quietly went from military control back into the hands of a constitutional President. In Buenos Aires' Chamber of Deputies, courtly, white-haired Dr. Arturo Umberto Illia, 63, took the oath of office as Argentina's 29th President, ending 18 months of military-dominated government that began with the overthrow of President Arturo Frondizi...
Like Hungary's Josef Cardinal Mindszenty, Beran chose to battle his Communist overlords rather than negotiate with them after the Reds took over in 1948. He publicly protested the seizure of church property, forbade his clergy to take an oath of loyalty to the new regime, and eventually was put under house arrest. One day in 1949 Justice Minister Alexei Cepicka visited the archiepiscopal palace, hoping to bully him into submission. In answer, Beran went to a closet, picked up a bundle of ragged clothes that he had worn at Dachau, said "Let's go." He was hustled...
...Apparently, Cabot never lived at Elmwood. He sold it in 1787 to Elbridge Gerry, Class of 1762, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Gerry called his new home "The Mansion House" and while living there was twice elected Governor. At Elmwood on March 4, 1813, Gerry took the oath of office as vice-President of the United States. He died in Washington in 1814, leaving "debts and fame," the latter resting upon his invention of the curious Massachusetts electoral district that looked like a salamander...