Word: signed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
Arbitration Treaties. The German Government, confessing "considerable doubts," asked for "further elucidation" concerning the arbitral treaties which she was asked to sign with Belgium, Poland and Czecho-Slovakia. Germany's "doubts" concerned the right of the Allied Governments, even under the terms of the Peace treaties, to take coercive action without first submitting their case to some international body. Unless such an arrangement were made, "real pacification, as aimed at by the German Government in concert with the Allied Governments, would not be reached." A regular precedure to regulate coercive action was asked...
...Sweringen brothers, worn with testifying before the Interstate Commerce Commission on their proposed Nickel Plate merger, have repented of ever entering the railroad business, they at least give no sign of it. They are patient, courteous, frank. Counsel H. W. Anderson, representing the minority Chesapeake & Ohio stockholders, is infinitely inquisitive. Counsel Newton D. Baker for the Van Sweringens, continues to protest against a continued unlimited inquiry into the past of the present Nickel Plate. The Van Sweringens answer frankly all questions asked them. Meanwhile it is July in Washington...
...Recognizing that at present the United States is unwilling to sign any international obligation of a general character, the Assembly believe the United States would help considerably in the cause of peace if it could at least promise its friendly neutrality toward the countries which would act against a State if the latter started an aggressive...
...first place, the new editor hopes to live here until he is the old editor, until some of the visions which rise before him as he dreams shall, have come true. He hopes always to sign 'from Emporia' after his name when he is abroad, and he trusts that he may endear himself to the people, that they will be as proud of the first words of the signature as he is of the last words. He expects to perform all the kind offices of the country editor in this community for a generation to come...