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...soften the inevitable shock of saddling his colt President Roosevelt called in the White House newshawks for an explanation of his budget. Each had to go to the Treasury, sign his name to an oath of absolute secrecy before he was handed a copy of the President's budget message, a copy of the 900-page budget. Then the correspondents hurried up the street to the White House Offices, were received by the President with Secretary Morgenthau and Budget Director Bell, one at each elbow. For an hour the newshawks were allowed to ask all the foolish questions they...
...havoc their country cousins and excitable fellow townsmen had wrought, held a mass meeting, formed a vigilante corps. Dr. Moody told newshawks that he thought that Lillian was not pregnant, had not actually been raped. Indeed, she was back at school. Nevertheless Father Gibson swore a mighty oath, declaring: "The fire hain't started to burn yet. Our people back in the hills ain't agoin' to forget. They can keep the National Guards here for months, but that won't matter. I took Pat Lawes, who was my nephew by marriage, and Gill Freeman with...
...Republican Senator Patterson kept raking up the five bodies of the victims of Kansas City's year-and-a-half-old Union Station massacre. On the eve of election an inconsiderate grand jury indicted three Pendergast henchmen. The charge was perjury: two of them had denied under oath telling two detectives to "lay off this Union Station case," the third, a police lieutenant, swore he had not told county prosecutors that his first duty was not to Kansas City but "to the Democratic organization of which Mr. Pendergast is head...
...Sheik: "An oath was taken." Eddie: "I didn't take it. Search...
...glory and the crown was to consist in swearing fealty to Adolf Hitler. Once the Realmleader had accepted their oaths, the Nazi prelates felt, other German Protestants would realize that the game of opposing them was up. Vastly potent to the Fuhrer's devotees is the mere acceptance of an oath by Adolf Hitler...