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...would be a fair-minded judge, his friends in the Senate let the opposition blow itself out. made no formal effort to defend him. Mr. Hughes was confirmed as the eleventh Chief Justice of the U. S. (The vote: 52 to 26.) He was ready to take his special oath which begins: "I do solemnly swear that I will administer justice without respect to persons and do equal rights to the rich and to the poor...
Died. Ansley Wilcox, 74, famed Buffalo lawyer, in whose coat and library President Roosevelt took the oath of office after the assassination of President McKinley; in Buffalo...
...supposed to convince Indians that their aspirations will presently be realized; some of it was supposed to reassure Englishmen that nothing of the kind is likely to happen. The archives of the Empire bulge with records of such so-called "English Frauds," most of them successful-for example an "Oath of Fealty" to King George has been adroitly palmed off on the Irish Free State Parliament, members of which would choke before taking the House of Commons' regular "Oath of Allegiance," though everyone knows that "Fealty" is if anything more degrading than "Allegiance...
...poor dog fancier say? He could not prove that he had not uttered the quoted words. His speech had never existed on paper. Nobody had made a movietone of it-such as the one which caught Chief Justice William Howard Taft's error when administering the Presidential Oath to Herbert Clark Hoover (TIME, March 25). All that flustered Earl Russell could do was to beg newspaper reporters for their notes. These proved, like all human testimony, to be conflicting. But finally there was found a page of scraggly shorthand symbols which His Lordship hailed as proving that what...
...This oath, characterized as a "naïve patchwork of contradictory vows," and other more startling revelations of the methods and aims of the Fascist League of America, appeared in a well authenticated article entitled "Mussolini's American Empire" by one Marcus Duffield in a recent issue of Harper's Magazine...