Word: swear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President had tried to lay his hand soothingly on Business (TIME, Aug. 20), but, like a shell-shocked animal, it kept on trembling all the more. Unable to hog-call Business himself, the President dispatched his Secretary of Commerce to the microphone to swear that the "Roosevelt Administration . . . believes in just profits for management and capital" (see p. 17). But businessmen still had the jitters...
Riding the Synod roughshod, Reichs-bischof Müller demanded that it abdicate its legislative powers, vesting them in his Church Cabinet and compelling all pastors to take, on pain of expulsion from their pastorates, this oath: "I swear before God, holy and omnipotent, that I will be true and obedient to the leader of the German people and the German State, Adolf Hitler, and that I will offer every sacrifice and service for the good of the German people. Furthermore that I will perform my duties as pastor in accord with the instructions issued by the German Evangelical Church...
...swear by God this holy oath: that I will give unqualified obedience to the Leader of the German Government and the German people, Adolf Hitler, as Commander-in-Chief of the Army [or Navy] and that as a courageous soldier [or sailor] I am ready at any time to place my life at stake for this oath...
...interested spectator, called in the Scripps-Howard counsel, the law firm of Newton Diehl Baker, who, as Secretary of War, was General MacArthur's onetime chief. Numerous Senators, Representatives and one former Ambassador offered their legal services free to Pearson & Allen. Dozens of Washington newshawks were ready to swear that they had found the Chief of Staff "swaggering...
...will be held as soon as the People's Court is organized. The defendants, all Communists, are Peter Stoll, tailor; Solly Einstein, painter; Hans Ziegler, barber. Object of the trial is not only to chop the heads off Peter, Solly and Hans, but to produce witnesses who will swear to the upright and lofty character of Horst Wessel and Lucie, once of the Alexanderplatz...