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Reports from college campuses indicate that the Oxford Oath not "to support the government of the United States in any war it may conduct" was somewhat more popular than it was in previous years. Tied up with the peace strike were protests against dictatorships and enemies of academic freedom, and resolutions for the outlawing of military training...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WAR WALKOUT | 5/7/1937 | See Source »

Would she resist taking an oath of allegiance to the U. S. constitution as a professional? "No", she emphasized, throwing back her black hair, "I have nothing to complain about; I am an American through and through...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ann Corio Blames Minsky for Burlesque Demise in New York; Favors Vassar's Marriage Courses | 5/3/1937 | See Source »

...willing to say under oath that this is not the handwriting of your mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Green Grist (Cont'd) | 5/3/1937 | See Source »

...afternoon last week five girls and boys in their teens peered down from the Senate gallery and watched their papa escorted down the aisle, elegant in cutaway with red carnation in buttonhole. Vice President Garner pronounced the oath of office and proud Papa William Henry Smathers said, "I do." After hobbling along for 13 weeks with only 95 members, the U. S. Senate once more had its full membership...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Tardy | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

...number and variety of issues they oppose. Not satisfied with merely crusading for an abstract, effervescent peace, the students have decided to direct their disapproval against war and the forces which make for war; compulsory military training in schools and colleges; the billion dollar war budget; teachers' oath laws and similar restrictions of American civil liberties; and finally, against the Fascist aggression in Spain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PEACE STRIKE--OR AGITATION? | 4/21/1937 | See Source »

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