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There the hillbillies and 37 other bands tooted in turn for five hours, and 10,000 school children raised their voices in chorus. At last Crooner O'Daniel stood up to take his inaugural oath as Governor...
...believe, Senator, that you have ever taken the oath to support the Constitution of the United States with less reservation than I have, or would now, nor do I believe you are more attached to the theories and practices of Americanism than...
...cried "Long Live France, Kill the Duce!" also before the Italian Consulate. Singing the Marseillaise as they paraded in an organized demonstration, war veterans massed in front of Corsica's imposing monument at Bastia to World War soldiers while their chief read to veterans and citizens alike an oath of allegiance to France: "With all our soul, we swear, on our glories and on the graves of our dead, to live and die French!" As one man they echoed back: "We swear...
Back in the U. S., Lieutenant Eliot became a reserve officer (the courts decided that his oath to the King did not count because he had been under 21 when he made it). Like many a veteran he drifted, like many a veteran pored over military history to find out what had happened during the battles that had been only nightmares of confusion. In Kansas City in 1926 he picked up a pulp magazine, War Stories, decided he could do as well, typed out an account of a war experience...
...most puzzling answers were three which professed nudism, one which held to the Boy Scout oath and one asserting "anachronism...