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...appointment of Dwight F. Davis '00 as Secretary of War to succeed John W. Wecks, comes the announcement that the new Assistant Secretary of War is Colonel Hanford McNider '11. Colonel McNider left his home in Iowa immediately after receiving the news of his appointment, and will take his oath of office after his arrival in the Capitol...
...Sept., 1926. Promoter Floyd Fitzsimmons posted 1200,000 as a forfeit, Dempsey $100,000, Wills $50,000. Every man in the land who reads a,sport sheet had an opinion to offer bn this historic scene, the culmination of four years of bickering. Some likened it to the Oath of the Tennis Court, the signing of Magna Carta, of the Treaty of Versailles. Others were more skeptical; among them...
...Republic's sixth birthday. But was not sphinx-faced Generalfeldmarschall Paul von Hindenburg present? Was not he President of the German Republic? Was not he also a staunch Monarchist? The answer was in a gutteral German affirmative. Moreover, since Monarchists assume that President von Hindenburg has taken the oath of allegiance to the Republic only in order to serve the Fatherland and not because he has renounced Monarchism, they evidently deemed it highly proper for them to attend with their chief. But enthusiastic they could...
...believe in the existence of God and therefore I did not swear to God. I affirmed and you can be held for perjury on affirmation as well as on an oath...
...believe that any court will hold the oath constitutional, because swearing to it virtually means that Government clerks must accept the definite religion of Christianity. That would be a violation of the first article of the Constitution. As I am a true atheist, I could not conscientiously sign an oath containing those words, for that would have demanded that I lie." Said Congressman Thomas L. Blanton of Texas...