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...TIME erred in stating fortnight ago that, "in Iowa 20,000 deputies and 50,000 militia stood to arms to keep the peace." Iowa's militia totals 3,751, and was not ordered out. By request of local sheriffs, some militiamen were allowed to swear in as special deputies. There were approximately 1,000 deputies throughout the State, of which not more than 200 actively participated in quelling the strike. Milo Reno, prime agitator of the farm holiday movement, characterized as "preposterous" his colleagues' claim that 250,000 pickets were posted throughout the Corn Belt. He put total...
...candidate elected. When a viva voce vote showed most of the electors for Lewis Morris, whom Governor Cosby had deposed as Chief Justice of New York's Supreme Court, the Sheriff demanded a poll. Against all precedent, he barred from voting 38 Quakers for refusing to "swear on the Book" to their eligibility. Nonetheless Lewis Morris won the day and the electors triumphantly "waited on their new representative to his lodging with trumpets sounding and violins...
...embraced each other and their escorts with patriotic fervor as eight judges of the Cuban Supreme Court arrived majestically in their black robes. No foreign envoy, not even U. S. Ambassador Welles, was present. Amid sizzling heat Dr. Cespedes. perspiring in formal morning clothes, took this brief oath: "I swear faithfully to fulfill the duties of President of the Republic and enforce the Constitution and the laws!" Going inside from the garden terrace he signed the oath, exclaiming as he laid down his pen, "Viva la Republica Libre...
...proposal for compulsory military training sent a handful of students scurrying to the Capitol to swear they would never bear arms for their country. Their demonstration incensed Assemblyman James H. Higgins, a Milwaukee dry cleaner, who spluttered: "I was never so insulted in all my life. Eighteen-and 20-year-old kids throwing abuse at World War veterans! . . . Their views suggested that they were believers of Communism, Bolshevism and atheism...
Siamese courtiers swear that King Prajadhipok. when consulted by his puzzled treasurer, ordered promptly sent to modest Dr. Wheeler a check for $250,000-which to Siamese meant the staggering sum of 587,000 bahts...