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...required each & every assistant, lecturer, associate, instructor, assistant professor, associate professor, professor or plain teacher in Columbia, Cornell, Syracuse, Colgate, Hamilton and every other university, college, normal school, high school, elementary school and kindergarten in the State to subscribe to the following oath: ''I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support the Constitution of the United States of America and the Constitution of the State of New York, and that I will faithfully discharge, according to the best of my ability, the duties of the position...
...Hopeful that a binding knot of sentiment was tied between the Reichswehr and himself recently when every officer and soldier was made to swear personal loyalty to him, Realmleader Hitler sought to tug this knot tighter last week by announcing that he will exercise his powers of pardon exclusively in favor of members of the Reichswehr...
...Vienna, pullulating with Socialist and Nazi intrigue, would scarcely vote him back. His strength is in rural Austria and in the Hitlerphobia of the Great Powers. Old-fashioned Austrian Legitimists are never tired of harking back to the great oath which Kaiser Karl VI made all his subjects swear in 1724, pledging themselves and their descendants through all eternity to the House of Habsburg. These Legitimists have a pretty plan that Austria's "loyal provinces" should declare one by one that they are bound to Otto in virtue of the great oath. More likely to succeed seems a royalist putsch...
...President had tried to lay his hand soothingly on Business (TIME, Aug. 20), but, like a shell-shocked animal, it kept on trembling all the more. Unable to hog-call Business himself, the President dispatched his Secretary of Commerce to the microphone to swear that the "Roosevelt Administration . . . believes in just profits for management and capital" (see p. 17). But businessmen still had the jitters...
Riding the Synod roughshod, Reichs-bischof Müller demanded that it abdicate its legislative powers, vesting them in his Church Cabinet and compelling all pastors to take, on pain of expulsion from their pastorates, this oath: "I swear before God, holy and omnipotent, that I will be true and obedient to the leader of the German people and the German State, Adolf Hitler, and that I will offer every sacrifice and service for the good of the German people. Furthermore that I will perform my duties as pastor in accord with the instructions issued by the German Evangelical Church...