Word: swearing
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...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...
...Elizabethan library where Samuel Seabury plotted Tammany's destruction some three years ago, last week swart little Fiorello Enrico LaGuardia faced a New York Supreme Court Justice reading him an oath of office. "I do so solemnly swear,'' snapped Mr. LaGuardia, thereupon turning and kissing the plain earnest woman who was once his secretary, is now his wife. "Now we have a Mayor of New York!" exclaimed delighted Inquisitor Seabury, who had whipped together the Fusion Party which turned bumbling Mayor John Patrick O'Brien out of office, turned Tammany upside down. To celebrate this deed...
...were in his eyes as different as Esau and Jacob. She admitted bedding with a neighbor. Everyone to whom Farmer Peddie talked declared that the idea of twins having different fathers was scientifically preposterous. For six years his suspicion of divided paternity rankled. Finally, Peddie found doctors who would swear in court that unlike twins were alwavs conceived from separate ova and sperms, usually simultaneously, occasionally hours apart, that it was biologically possible for the ova to be fertilized...