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...liquor on them. Of a certain colonel the Duke once said, "He is just able to walk straight. That is sober enough for a civilian but very drunk for a soldier!" One of Field Marshal the Duke of Connaught's little rules, which he scrupulously observes: "No officer may swear in the presence of a superior officer, but he may use 'damn' to a subordinate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Connaught to Westminster | 7/15/1935 | See Source »

...swear in the name of the Holy Trinity that I will be true to the Nation, to the Parliamentary Republic and to the federal laws, and that I will conscientiously fulfill my duties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Spitework | 7/15/1935 | See Source »

...Depression," explained Inventor Merkl. "Nothing to do. I swear I make a trap to catch anything. First I figure and figure. Then I improve and improve. All 100% humane traps. No one gets hurt. The animals, they like it. They sit there inside, nice and quiet, and look out. Only the coon, he woof at you when you come. They go in my traps. I guarantee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 8, 1935 | 7/8/1935 | See Source »

...Conscious before God and history of my responsibility for the destinies of the State, I swear to God Almighty-One in the Holy Trinity-as President of the Republic, to defend the sovereign rights of the State; to guard its dignity; to enforce the Constitution Act; to apply equal justice to all citizens; to ward off evil and danger from the State and to consider the care for its welfare my supreme duty. So help me God and the Holy Passion of His Son. Amen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Clique's Candidate | 7/1/1935 | See Source »

...American. Sure enough, it was Ernest Elmer Baker, dressed up in an old Red Army uniform. He had worked his way to Rotterdam, jumped ship with $10 in his pocket, started to walk to Russia. He had no passport because to get one he would have had to swear an oath, which his religion forbade. Time & again German and Polish authorities had clapped him into jail, but Ernest Elmer Baker always got out and kept on walking. Soviet frontier guards had finally picked him up ragged and penniless near Minsk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Pentecostal Hike | 7/1/1935 | See Source »

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