Word: swore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Swore in Hiram Bingham, new Senator from Connecticut, and assigned him to the military and Post Office Committees...
Upon the second anniversary of the triumphant entry into Rome of the Fascist legions, the Fascist national militia, which for two years has been an extra-legal army owing allegiance only to Signor Benito Mussolini as the Dux of Fascismo, swore allegiance to King Vittorio Emanuele and ceased to be a purely party organization. At Milan, Benito's home town, Black Shirts, as the Fascist Militia is known, concentrated in large numbers to swear fealty to their King. The most spectacular parade was, however, at Rome. In the vale of the Aventine and Palatine hills, between the Colosseum...
...analyzed some table syrups for the Indiana Board of Health, found them "abominably adulterated." Made Chief Chemist to the U. S. Government, he began his famed food experiments on human beings. In his Bureau, he formed a "poison squad" of volunteers-12 gallant youths from the clerical force who swore to eat nothing beyond the curious diet he daily administered to them. He fed them on advertised foods that contained boracic acid, sulfates, benzoates, formaldehyde; he watched their cheeks grow lean, their temples hollow, their skins turn the color of whey. He watched the falling off of their flesh...
...been expected that the Labor Ministry would fall on the legal issues arising from the suspended prosecution of James Ross Campbell. Political observers felt that their fate was to be sealed at the conclusion of the debate on the Anglo-Russian Treaty, scheduled for November. After the vote, they swore by all their gods that the Government had virtually fallen on the Russian issue and what the trivial issue of the dropped edition charge had been seized upon because it was favorable to Liberal and Conservative election interests...
...falsely alleged himself to be a citizen of the United States" when he took the oath of office. It goes on to say that he is a "person of African blood and descent", and that when he took the oath of office in Washington on April 16, 1924, he swore falsely that he was a citizen under 'the alleged 14th amendment of the constitution of the United States...