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...Friends of New Germany and the Foes of Old America" are skidded back to Swineland. And if you haven't heard the news yet at Harvard, why, I am betraying no confidences when I tell you that every day the new secret organization, American Defenders, are swearing a scared oath that America will never be Sweiniezed...
Preachers who inveigh against those who take the name of the Lord in vain had no complaint last week against those who, without blasphemous intent, took 1,060 futile oaths. Complaint belonged properly to Federal Judge John Percy Nields of Wilmington. Del. He had to shuffle through the oath-takers' 1,060 affidavits in order to decide whether the National Labor Board could legally force an employer to let Labor Board agents hold a union election in his plant...
...Astor: On that subject I must remain noncommittal. Besides I am under oath. If you want me to talk about fishing you will have to unswear...
General Johnson: Stripped of shadowy verbiage, this means that the choice of the American people is between Fascism and Communism, neither of which can be espoused by any one who believes in our democratic institutions of self-govern-ment; nor can any public official who has taken an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States adopt or officially advocate such a program...
...chairman of the Senate inquiry Senator Black of Alabama promptly promised to call Messrs. Astor, Roosevelt and Franklin before his committee and let his Indiana colleague examine them. Last week the three appeared in Washington under oath but Senator Robinson, strangely missing, did not follow up his charges. Other Senators were left to put the necessary questions. First Mr. Franklin and other officers of his company denied sending any messages to business associates aboard the Nourmahal. Then Kermit Roosevelt denied receiving any except one. in February 1933, just before Franklin Roosevelt's inauguration, in which a fellow officer briefly...