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...stale in Moscow's onetime Nobles' Club, the corpse was cremated and the ashes poured into a bronze urn. This the Dictator and other pallbearers carried to a niche in the Kremlin wall after two hours of speechmaking. Their keynote: more and better vengeance. Cried Premier Vyacheslav Molotov: "We swear to carry on a merciless fight against every enemy of our Revolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Pure Terror | 12/17/1934 | See Source »

...swear to observe and enforce the Constitution of the United States of Mexico, as well as the laws emanating therefrom?" rumbled Don Enrique Gonzalez Flores, President of the Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Palm Down | 12/10/1934 | See Source »

Ever since he purged his Party in blood, Realmleader Adolf Hitler has shown a jittery eagerness to receive from as many Germans as possible great oaths of personal fealty. The whole Reichswehr from privates to generals cried "I swear by God this holy oath!" (TIME, Aug. 13). So has the Navy, the brownshirt Storm Troops, black-pantalooned Special Guards, the police. Finally last week Realmleader Hitler decided to take no further chances on the unsworn loyalty of the Germans who now know him best, his Cabinet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: For Life | 10/29/1934 | See Source »

...swear to be loyal and obedient to the Leader of the German Realm and People, Adolf Hitler; to exert my powers for the welfare of the German people; to obey the laws conscientiously; to fulfill my duties impartially and with justice to all men; so help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: For Life | 10/29/1934 | See Source »

...Texas Field is a perfect network of secret pipe lines, bypasses and other ingenious devices of knavery. Everybody knows it. Administrator Ickes has declared that if oilmen would furnish the evidence they have in their hands he could cut off every drop of hot oil in 48 hours. Oilmen swear they have turned in enough evidence to convict half the population of Texas but nothing is done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Fizzling Oil | 10/22/1934 | See Source »

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