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...Congress shall have power, in such cases as it may deem proper, to provide a suitable oath or affirmation for citizens whose religious scruples prevent them from giving unqualified allegiance to the Constitution as herein amended...
...Jenkins upheld Senator McCarthy's claim that Government employees, including officers of the Army, are not bound by their oath or by the laws [against disclosing confidential information] or by any ties of loyalty to their superiors or to the service if-in their own private and secret opinion-it would be a good thing to break...
This was an encouraging score for Coach Munro as a warmup for the Dartmouth game on Saturday, Dartmouth and Yale now being the obstacles to the oath for an undefeated season. The team should be at full strength with John Lane back in uniform Saturday...
...giving testimony. I have a right to object at any time." Said Joe: "Don't object in the middle of my question." McClellan retorted: "I do not want you testifying . . . unless you want to take the witness stand, and I do not mind your saying it under oath." McCarthy, turning on a smile, muttered that Jenkins' original objection was "perhaps well taken"-and proceeded until recess time along a slightly modified line...
...letters in hollow trees or in cleft sticks planted in forest clearings. Once they took China with them, his curly head protruding from the turret of an armored car. Another time, Henderson, scouting on his own, hid behind a thick-fronted banana tree and watched a Mau Mau oath-taking ceremony in which the new members were forced to eat human eyeballs gouged from still-living victims. The rite included other barbaric practices in sadism and sodomy...