Word: swear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heavy-jowled man in the full dress of a Prime Minister turned to the Deputies and told them to sit down. They sat. Benito Mussolini read out in a fine commanding voice the oath of fidelity to the King and Constitution. He ended with: "I swear," and raised his right arm in the Fascist salute. Next he read out the names of the new Deputies in alphabetical order. Each rose at his name, raised his arm and said, "I swear...
...Especially maddening to old contractors was General Farley's shifting to them the burden of proving their innocence. He declared that, to be eligible, each company must swear none of its officers had been guilty of fraud and collusion. No company officers had been tried, all claimed they were innocent, yet General Farley reserved to himself final judgment of the truth of the companies' affidavits. Only Cord man on the Farley blacklist was R. C. Marshall, a division manager of American Airways, who was quietly detitled last week when American Airways was changed to American Airlines, in which...
...They chose one to represent the Heimwehr, one the employers, one labor. The Burgomaster will choose a new advisory body called the Wiener Bürgerschaft. Three Catholic priests will be on it. and there will be one Jew to represent the dwindling rights of that race. All must swear to uphold "the Christian German character of Vienna." Any or all the Bürgerschaft may be dismissed at will by the new Burgomaster...
...sole purpose of attending this meeting. One of them, Miss Eleanor Rathbone, Independent M. P., rose to ask a few questions. Was it not true that despite the prohibitions of the Versailles Treaty full-page advertisements of Vickers tanks were published in Berlin papers? Would the chairman swear on his honor that no Vickers munitions were being secretly shipped to Germany and Austria, possibly to be used against British troops...
...Cracken replied that he also was sorry but he felt that he was under arrest and could not leave. In fact he would have to spend the weekend. Then he turned to the young woman, dictated something. She asked him to raise his right hand and said, "Do you swear that this is true...