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...Then you have broken your oath of office," cried Tobey incredulously...
...Angeles last week, dressed as if for mourning in black gown, black coat and dotted veil, Swedish Immigrant Greta Garbo, 45, finally got around to taking her final oath as a U.S. citizen. Before scurrying back to privacy, she obliged newsmen with one hurried pose and one restrained quote: "I am glad to become a citizen...
Polish-born Pola Negri, 51, heavy-lidded vamp of the silent screen, who first came to the U.S. in 1922, appeared last week in a Los Angeles federal court to take her final oath as a U.S. citizen. She was now busy, she said, writing her autobiography to be called, As Much As I Dare...
...folklore and custom of politics, Inauguration Day is open season for hearty handshakes, clinking glasses, the rustle of silks, and self-conscious twisting in rented tuxedos. But for the crop of newly elected governors who raised their hands in solemn oath across the nation last week, inauguration seemed more like an augury of trouble and crisis...
...wind of an alarming rumor. His Democratic lieutenant governor, scheduled to be sworn in an hour and a half ahead of the governor's inaugural, was planning (so the story went) to rush through a swatch of political appointments before Mechem could act officially. Hurriedly, Mechem took his oath in his apartment before a notary public 15 minutes after midnight, took it again twelve hours later before the chief justice of the state supreme court...