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...Polish oath they swore...
...tramped into the office of David M. Ellison, Attorney General. Capt. J. A. Holliday called out his militia, saying "it was nothing but a drill." By these martial hints, Ellison learned he was no longer Attorney General. Governor Long had decided after four months that Ellison had taken his oath of office illegally. Also ousted was the first assistant, bald, old Kingfish-worshipping James O'Connor. Next day Ellison, with a straight face, remarked that Long had done him a "favor," withdrew from the January 16 primary as opposition candidate to New Orleans' City Attorney Francis Burns, Long...
...seriously the Czarist web has enveloped Yale is apparent from the idealistic blood-oath taken by each of the members "testifying to his resolution of chastity and obedience until a Romanoff sits again on the Russian throne." The consequences of such a promise in any average American community, or even to New York debutantes, is greater than the Dies Committee itself could imagine. Of all the great oaths in history, none have gone so far. Even the Ten Commandments included only "obedience." What means the revolutionists will use to impose "chastity" is beyond the wildest imagination. Already they seem...
...Kentucky. A famed photographer and storyteller, he also plays chess extremely well, for a man without a beard. Outwardly he is as hard-boiled as a Hemingway hero, underneath as sentimental. Symbol of his wry self-depreciation of arts at which he excels is his poem, The Hippocratic Oath of a Photographer...
...that just before President Ignacy Moscicki fled from Poland to Rumania (TIME, Oct. 2) he secretly resigned and invoked a clause of the Constitution which permits the President to name his successor, naming the former Governor of Pomorze Province, a politically neutral lawyer, Wladislaw Raczkiewicz. At the Embassy the oath of office was solemnly administered to President Raczkiewicz, provoking the Nazi press to scream, "All this is a Polish farce...