Word: swearings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which the majority held (5-2) that the Alabama State Democratic Executive Committee has a right to bar from the ballot any candidate for presidential elector who refuses to swear an oath to support the nominees of the Democratic National Convention...
...KATE SMITH SHOW. "Women still swear by her . . . Kate Smith is the kind of person who can appeal to the housewife alone in her home and cut off from the outside world...
Found fit for limited service, Billings told the Army officials his intentions and was promptly arrested and informed that they would induct him forcibly by simply reading the oath in his presentce. After hearing. "Do you, Arthur Goodwyn Billings, solemnly swear" and so on, he replied emphatically. "I do not, I refuse to take this oath." An officer reported. "That doesn't make any difference, you're in the Army...
...still 4,000 air miles from London and hence unavailable to proclaim, as required, that she is a Protestant. Nevertheless, in two hours, the councilors decided that she was indeed the rightful sovereign, and at 7 p.m. the House of Commons met again to hear their report and swear allegiance to the new Queen. Then they adjourned. That night London was dark and still. The neon lights in Trafalgar Square and Piccadilly Circus had been turned out and, except for restaurants, all public places were closed tight...
...should kill our mothers and eat them." The voters howled in disgust at such a wicked thing, not knowing that there are in fact no such plans afoot. "The slavery of the British was a thousand times better than the Freedom of today," the candidate went on. "I swear by the Goddess Chamunda that if elected I will continue to serve the people as my ancestors have done for seven hundred years...