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...more exclusive gangs initiates, usually aged about nine, have to drink twelve glasses of dago-red wine and have a revolver pressed into their temples while they take the pledge. Another gang demands that all members swear vengeance upon anyone who shall wrong a fellow constituent-an oath which is carried...
...Chester A. Arthur, polished but unimportant politician, became Vice President of the U. S. In the same year President Garfield was assassinated and Mr. Arthur became President. Oath of office was administered at his home on the first floor apartment of No. 123 Lexington Ave., Manhattan. Last week that floor was gritted by fire...
...precedent,* challenged the right of the Senate to deprive Illinois of its legally appointed, constitutional representative. Senator Reed of Missouri, who had last summer investi gated Mr. Smith's public utility campaign fund, summed up the case against him. Said Mr. Reed: "It is absurd to say the oath must first be administered, then a hearing held and expulsion take place. That would seem to be a rather ridiculous performance. We have held a hearing, we have the evidence before...
Last week, Viscount Julian Byng of Vimy, onetime Governor General of Canada (1921-26), presided in London at a banquet attended by Edward of Wales and there loosed what Queen Victoria would have called "a fearful oath...
Came a voice, as Edward rose smiling to return the toast: "Your Royal Highness must consider that an 'oath of fealty...