Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...days later, Justice Byron R. White administered the oath of office to a newly appointed Justice Department official. Quipped White: "I had to borrow this Bible-the only one left in the Supreme Court was Potter Stewart...
...Harvard soon began its 299th year. Almost all other activities between the opening of the Class of 1938's sophomore year and the beginning of the centenary celebration--already looming on the University's horizon--fell in the shadow of a many faceted dispute over the Teacher's Oath Act, which required most instruction in Massachusetts to swear that they would uphold the national and state constitution Kirtley F. Mather, professor of geology, struck back at the Massachusetts Legislature's structure as "unwarranted and dangerous to democracy." Mather claimed to speak for many Faculty members when he said he would...
Mather's objection, in reality, was purely a matter of matter of principle; for he had many times previously taken such oaths. And all through his campaign he maintained that he had "no unwillingness to swear under conditions which make an oath appropriate." While a group of seniors circulated a petition supporting him. Mather reconsidered, then retracted his stand is the interest of keeping the University out of a threatened lawsuit...
...past, MacDonald told the crowd that this was a "glad day in Kenya's history" and wished Kenyatta "every success in his task of leading Kenya forward to uhuru [freedom]." Kenyatta echoed the cry of uhuru, then, lifting a Bible high in his right hand, he took the oath of office as Prime Minister of self-governing Kenya...
...that was hollow talk. The line was still drawn. Rubinstein gave the proceeds of the evening to the International Red Cross-still engaged in salving wounds from the war. And as a little reminder that his old oath was not forgotten, he said: "We Jews are sentimental people. We are in tears when we come to a spot where we know our people have been killed. Can you imagine how my hundreds of relatives, all slaughtered by the Germans, would feel looking down from the sky at me-playing in Berlin...