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Word: swears (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same day, in every Polish city and town as well as Gdynia, Poles massed and took a public oath: "We swear to defend the eternal right of Poland to the Baltic and to protect the maritime future of our country, to maintain an invincible guard in the mouth of the Vistula [Danzig]. ... So help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Polish Oath | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

...Guillaumet, airmail pilot on the route surveyed by Mermoz, who, forced down in the Andes, became "the author of his own miracle" in as heroic a trek as any in exploring history. Said Pilot Guillau-met: "I swear that what I went through, no animal would have gone through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New Breed | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...Parliament. Raimundo Fernandez Cuesta, secretary general of Spain's only party, demanded "blind obedience" to Generalissimo Franco, ended by proposing an oath: "We proclaim our inflexible will to obey unconditionally the orders of our Caudillo. As proof of that sacred promise, let the Councillors of the Falange swear with me before God always to obey the Caudillo and those who receive from him the power of commandment." The Councillors swore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Outside, Inside | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

...Teachers' Oath is in theory a harmless law which requires teachers to swear allegiance to the Federal and State Constitutions. Since Section 2a of this law stipulates that "nothing herein contained shall be construed to interfere in any way with the basic principles of the Constitution which assures every citizen freedom of thought and speech," the oath does not appear to deviate too far from the precepts of democracy. But, unfortunately, this law has quite a different de facto meaning when it is enforced in a community where there is strong local feeling against alien social systems like Communism...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ETERNAL STRUGGLE | 2/18/1939 | See Source »

Supporters of the law which requires teachers to swear allegiance to the Constitution were led by Reps. Sawyer and McCready. They were abetted by Rep. Wenzler of Boston, often called "the clown of the legislature," who roared: "Some of these professors when they get to 65 or 70--their brains are cracked." Wenzler himself is almost...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TEACHERS OATH REPEAL VOTED DOWN IN HOUSE | 2/17/1939 | See Source »

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