Word: oaths
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...Moscow, the anniversary was celebrated solemnly, ceremoniously, peacefully, for three whole days. The city was draped in cloth of red. Not a street was there that did not exhibit a picture of Lenin, Karl Marx or Trotzky. Red Army and Red Navy recruits took the Red oath of allegiance to the Red Government. Red troops paraded the streets; the Red proletariat applauded. Red orators spoke thus...
...shifts from the Golden Gate to the hills of Vermont. Reporters in automobiles rushing over country roads; a knock at the door of a white farmhouse in the little hamlet of Plymouth; oil lamps lit, dispelling the darkness; telegrams read by their glow; a brief statement of mourning; an oath of office taken at dawn and the next chapter is inaugurated...
...greatest difficulty in managing. Cheers upon cheers rent the air-then there was a lull, occasioned by deepening interest not unmixed with curiosity. Three men appeared upon the scene followed by their retinues. They were the Ministers of War, Marine and Air. They had come to receive the oath in the name of the King. This the troops gave in the customary manner of the Romans- that is, with arms outstretched and palms extended before them. Henceforth the Fascist militia was to know a new master. All this came to pass because Premier Benito was severely criticized by the Opposition...
...Collector of Customs of the Port of New Orleans. Mr. Cohen is a Negro, and the petition, filed by Edwin H. Both of Washington, D. C, and Carl E. McHenry of New Orleans, alleges that he obtained his appointment in the U. S. revenue service by subscribing to an oath that he was a citizen of the U. S. when, as a matter of fact, he was "of African descent and, therefore, incapable of becoming a citizen of the United States." The basis of this contention is that the 14th Amendment to the Constitution was never legally ratified by three...
...unconstitutional? What critic has a right to say that the people have no right to resent and repudiate such a decision as that of our present Supreme Court in its effort to perpetuate child slavery? If there is any special virtue or sanctity in the opinion and oath of 5 of the 9 lawyers who happen to sit on a bench, how much more virtue and sanctity should there be in the Congress opinion and oath of the 350 lawyers and judges who sit in the Congress and Senate of the United States? What body of men on the face...