Word: oaths
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...brought in the name of H. E. Bolte, an attorney of Washington, D. C. Mr. Bolte claims that Walter L. Cohen, negro controller of customs of the the port of New Orleans, "falsely alleged himself to be a citizen of the United States" when he took the oath of office. It goes on to say that he is a "person of African blood and descent", and that when he took the oath of office in Washington on April 16, 1924, he swore falsely that he was a citizen under 'the alleged 14th amendment of the constitution of the United States...
...force to Boston armies, the eloquence to Boston orators, the life to Boston industry. Now, however, the bean sits humble and forlorn while in the place of honor the cake reposes in frosted complacency. Not so once. In Puritan days marriages in Boston were solemnized with the following oath, "To you I shall be true till Boston goes back on ye bean", murmured the wedding guests. "Till Boston goes back on ye bean", echoed the walls...
...Constitution guarantees equal rights to all our citizens without discrimination on account of race or color. I have taken my oath to support that Constitution. ... A colored man is precisely as much entitled to submit his name in a party primary as any other citizen. The decision must be made by the constituents to whom he offers himself and by nobody else...
...problem was disposed of in right royal fashion. An imperial decree was drawn up for the King's signature, was unanimously approved by direction of Benito. The decree made the Fascist militia part of the State forces, subjected them to military law, stipulated that they must take an oath of fealty to the King...
...monument to poet Longfellow in Grande Pré, Nova Scotia, scene of Evangeline; 2) a monument to Commodore Perry, near Erie, Pa., scene of the Battle of Lake Erie; 3) a movement to turn into a National Museum the Sub-Treasury Building, Wall Street, where Washington took oath of office; 4) a scheme for building a paved highway from New York to San Francisco, flanked all the way by monuments, as a memorial to the Americans who died...