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Judge E. E. Everett has revived interest in the Macintosh decision of the Supreme Court by granting citizenship to Professor J. P. Klassen of Bluffton, College at Lima, Ohio. Professor Klassen refused to take the oath to bear arms in defense of this country because of his religious beliefs as a Mennonite...
...Aurora Pierce, longtime Coolidge housekeeper, heard a tap on the homestead window. Allen Brown, a neighbor, was outside. She raised the sash to hear him say: "Calvin's dead, Aurora." She sat down in the room in which the 30th President of the U. S. had taken the oath from his father at 2:47 a. m., Aug. 3, 1923, and let her tears run in silent grief...
North Dakota. Tall, thick-set Republican William Langer took his oath in Bismarck's Atalexius Hospital where he lay ill with influenza. Mrs. Minnie Craig, elected Speaker of the House, led the inaugural audience in singing the State hymn...
...bunched respectfully a few paces from the locked door. At 12:45 a. m. it opened, the President announced dissolution, cried in ringing tones: "I have no doubt that my Government possesses the confidence of the country! We shall win the election and our victory will automatically abolish the Oath of Allegiance" (sworn by Free State Deputies & Senators to King George...
...Certainly there has been a perfect orgy of this sort of thing," cried Baron Rankeil-lour. "I greatly fear that some of His Majesty's ministers and former ministers have forgotten the context of their oath...