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...complete his victory (which consolidated the Moslem conquest of Hindustan), the Mogul Emperor Akbar massacred 30,000 Rajput retainers, but failed to arrest the flight of the Rajput's famed armorers. With their families they followed their own Prince Pratap Singh into the forests, and took a solemn oath never to sleep under a roof or on a bed until Chitor was reconquered...
Student groups, headed by the Student Council and the Cornell Daily Sun, have led a drive to make ROTC training purely voluntary. The campaign was instigated principally by the recent law which forces every ROTC student to sign a loyalty oath, stating that he has never belonged to a subversive organization. This, students charge, is unwarranted government interference in education...
Theoretically, if a student refuses to sign the oath he would be subject to expulsion, but in reality, only one student has not signed so far and he sits in a "special" class and is given private logistic instruction...
...separations, were entangled with the law and women as usual. In Manhattan, Playboy Manville, haled into court by wife No. 9, Anita Roddy-Eden Manville, and asked to prove that he is not worth at least $10 million, seemed on the verge of mouthing a pauper's oath. The exact figure before he had lunch during the court's noon recess, insisted Tommy, is a modest $2,054,922.23. To show the straits he is in, Manville lugged in a suitcase full of his canceled checks (item: $2,400 for a year's window cleaning...
...weariness left by a great war." The code that governed them was a mongrel code, "a compromise between the English and American procedures." It proved to be diametrically opposed to democratic German law because it bound the accused men, on pain of perjury, to speak the truth on oath, whereas German law would have given them .the right to lie to the full in their own defense. To the prisoners and their many supporters in Germany, Nuremberg was a put-up piece of legal chicanery, fit only to arouse derisive laughter. And such laughter, says Reporter West (who covered part...