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...eighth grade U. S. history class in the Walden, N. Y., public school. She was primed for what she was about to hear over the radio. She had memorized the Presidential oath, as prescribed by the Constitution, and was positive it ended with the words: "Preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States...
Alert, clear-eyed, sharp-eared, she heard Chief Justice Taft begin the oath: "You, Herbert Hoover, do you solemnly swear . . ." And what was her amazement to hear him conclude, "preserve, maintain and defend the Constitution of the U. S." That was a bad misquotation of the text, thought Helen, who sat right down and wrote the Chief Justice a polite note of correction...
...question as suggested by Harvard, is: Resolved, That this house favors the Baumes Law. It is not known yet which side of the question Harvard will defend since Exeter has the privilege of making a choice...
...year the second competition for the Putnam Prize, which was inaugurated last Spring in the cultural contest with Yale. The belated start made by the officials leaves no time for any further efforts to find at willing rival; and so the University will not be called upon to defend the laurels won for the first time last year...
...President moved against the revolutionaries by asking onetime President Plutarco Elias Calles (1924-28) to emerge from his civilian retirement and defend the state as Minister of War. Responding instantly, General Calles ordered swift mobilization, scoffed at reports that six states had joined Sonora and Vera Cruz in revolt clapped on an iron censorship...