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...electric power at Muscle Shoals, to continue for 18 months or longer; approved of the use of Italian Carrara marble for the headstones to mark American soldiers' graves in overseas cemeteries, despite the protests of U. S. marble merchants whose bids were excessively high. F. Trubee Davison took oath of office as Assistant Secretary of War for Aviation; became acting Secretary of War when Secretary Davis and Assistant Secretary MacNider left Washington; flew over the Capital as his first official act; appointed two new brigadier generals for the air service...
...great has their influence become that, on entering his junta, a Spanish officer ordinarily takes oath that he will obey his immediate superiors, even to the extent of refusing promotion by the military authorities at Madrid, except in the regular line of junta seniority...
Eighteen days later he abdicated as King and Emperor at Amerongen, the moat-defended chateau of Count Godard Bentinck, a Knight of the Prussian Order of St. John of which Wilhelm II was the head. Only because of his oath "to aid any Knight of St. John in distress," did Knight Bentinck shelter Knight Hohenzollern...
...Thomas de Torquemada, notorious Grand Inquisitor, celebrated the first great auto-da-fe (circa 1450), which began by a solemn procession of the Holy Office and its functionaries, followed by condemned heretics and penitents. Mass was celebrated and all present-including the King of Spain-took an oath of obedience to the Holy Inquisition. Finally the Grand Inquisitor delivered a sermon and read out the sentences of condemnation and acquittal. Contrary to general belief, the condemned were not burned during the auto-da-fe proper, but were handed over to the civil power, by which they were exterminated hours...
...Honest Ignatz,"† though elected,** did not-according to gleeful correspondents-possess a dress shirt in which he could be inaugurated. Three days later-a shirt having been obtained and the ancient palace of the Polish kings well aired for the ceremony-he took the oath of office, while bluff brain-stormy Pilsudski lounged in a great carved chair, nearby, surrounded by his officers...