Word: swore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...oath: "We proclaim our inflexible will to obey unconditionally the orders of our Caudillo. As proof of that sacred promise, let the Councillors of the Falange swear with me before God always to obey the Caudillo and those who receive from him the power of commandment." The Councillors swore...
...Left, plunged in. Said he, "I represent the petite bourgeoisie and I declare that the middle class and the working class are natural allies." He marched in the big Popular Front demonstration of July 14, 1935, between Communists Maurice Thorez and Jacques Duclos, gave the clenched-fist Communist salute, swore fidelity to the Popular Front at the Bastille...
...self-effacing Farley boomlet began last month with a speech by him at Lynchburg, Va., home of irrevocably anti-Roosevelt old Carter Glass. Mr. Farley there swore fealty once more to Franklin Roosevelt, saluted his humanitarian aims, kept silence regarding the President's economic surrealism. Same week in Albany, Jim Farley's friends moved to tie up for him the New York delegation to the 1940 Democratic National Convention...
...Johnson City, Tenn., a student at East Tennessee State Teachers College became suspicious last week when a strange, nervous boy turned up and said he was going to enroll. Police looked him over, found an automatic pistol in his car, got him to admit he was Junior Burgunder. He swore that all he knew of the Phoenix killings was what he had heard over the radio...
...Nova Scotia, excited fishermen and the captain of a pilot boat swore that they had seen an unidentified "submarine" cruise along the coast, enter Halifax Harbor. Canadian destroyers, minesweepers, and patrol planes searched fruitlessly. Nova Scotia is also a favorite resort of sea serpents...