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...stanch Tory, he pamphleteered against the U. S. Independence in a series of "Farmer's Letters," was imprisoned in Connecticut for six weeks in 1775. Chosen bishop by ten Connecticut churchmen, he was consecrated in 1784 in Aberdeen, Scotland because he could not properly take the British oath of allegiance. An able organizer and a strict churchman, he signed himself "Samuel Bp. Connect...
There was one reassuring event in the conflict of emotions. The Belgrade garrison paraded in full war equipment and repeated its oath of fealty to the royal family and loyalty to the established government...
...York a new State law required each & every assistant, lecturer, associate, instructor, assistant professor, associate professor, professor or plain teacher in Columbia, Cornell, Syracuse, Colgate, Hamilton and every other university, college, normal school, high school, elementary school and kindergarten in the State to subscribe to the following oath: ''I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support the Constitution of the United States of America and the Constitution of the State of New York, and that I will faithfully discharge, according to the best of my ability, the duties of the position...
...King of Italy's daughter hopes to sit with him. Vienna, pullulating with Socialist and Nazi intrigue, would scarcely vote him back. His strength is in rural Austria and in the Hitlerphobia of the Great Powers. Old-fashioned Austrian Legitimists are never tired of harking back to the great oath which Kaiser Karl VI made all his subjects swear in 1724, pledging themselves and their descendants through all eternity to the House of Habsburg. These Legitimists have a pretty plan that Austria's "loyal provinces" should declare one by one that they are bound to Otto in virtue...
...What right have you to expect us to have confidence in you? We have faith in Adolf Hitler because he has won it in 15 years of effort. You have nothing behind you but one year of failure. In this oath presented by your legal councilor you are hiding yourself behind Hitler and trying somehow to take refuge in his shadow...