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Mayan Lower Classes. Professor (of archaeology) Gordon R. Willey of Harvard has been carefully excavating a small ancient village at Barton Ramie, Honduras, which is 15 miles from the elaborate ceremonial center of Benque Viejo. The great temples and pyramids of the Mayans are already well known, but little is known about the people who labored to build them...
...past the gleaming marble Ionic columns stepped nine men robed in black. Eight seated themselves in the black leather chairs at the long mahogany bench; the ninth went with the clerk of the court to a desk beside the bench. After a brief opening ceremony, Clerk Harold B. Willey turned to the man at his side and administered an oath: "I, Earl Warren, do solemnly swear that I will administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and to the rich...
GEORGE A. WILLEY...
...that time, Willey remembered, he did sign a document which looked like the Massachusetts teaching oath. It could have been either the University of California loyalty oath or a new oath which all employees of the state have to take...
...Willey said he too disapproves of the oath, but added that he would have been willing to sign since he had nothing to hide. He said he had hoped all along the oath would be thrown...