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Shipstead's Oath. So narrow seemed the margin of votes that Senate Clerk John C. Crockett was despatched to Baltimore, there to establish a precedent by swearing in a Senator for the first time outside the Senate Chamber. Senator Henrik Shipstead of Minnesota, Farmer-Laborite, had been ill with influenza and complications since before March 4. He lay in a hospital bed in Baltimore. The administration of the oath by Clerk Crockett made him eligible to cast his vote for the debenture plan. That made 47 to 47 in the informal poll, resting the issue with Louisiana...
...Adopted a resolution to permit Minnesota's Shipstead to take his oath of office in a Baltimore Hospital...
Like soldiers, like ramrods, members of the newly elected 100% Fascist Parliament stood at attention before King Vittorio Emanuele III in the Chamber of Deputies last week, waiting to take their oaths of office. Each deputy was resplendent in dress suit and white gloves. "Gentlemen!" boomed Prime Minister Benito Mussolini, "His Majesty the King invites you to be seated!" They sat. He read the oath of office. He began to call the roll. Like clockwork, as each name was barked, a white-gloved hand shot up in the Fascist salute, and the deputy in question shouted "Giuro!" ("I swear!"). Straight...
Always a timesaver, Speaker Longworth reduced to less than a minute the ceremony of swearing in the whole House membership. Heretofore the oath was administered to groups of 20. This time all members stood together. Each raised his right hand. The Speaker carefully read the oath. A thunderous "I do" rolled solemnly through the chamber as 402 members swore all at once...
...statesmanlike exposure from which no ill came: Herbert Clark Hoover, hatless in a drizzle which penetrated to his underwear, taking oath of office in front of the U. S. Capitol...