Word: oath
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Senate Work Done: The Senate of the U. S. last week: ¶ Administered the oath of office to Cameron Morrison, who succeeded the late Lee Slater Overman as Senator from North Carolina. ¶ Adopted a resolution requesting its Committee on Appropriations to call on Chairman Arthur Woods of the President's Unemployment Commission and other Government officers for information regarding the seriousness of the Depression...
...until next day did the delayed credentials of New Jersey's Dwight Whitney Morrow arrive so that the Senate's roster of 96 might be completed. After taking the oath of office, onetime Morgan-Partner Morrow politely declined an assignment to the potent Banking & Currency Committee lest the cry of "Wall Street!" be raised. He took lowly places on the committees of Military Affairs, Labor, Post Offices, Public Buildings, Printing. Senator Davis committees: Banking & Currency, Naval Affairs, Civil Service. Inter-Oceanic Canals, Manufactures...
...down. Pale but determined, Mr. Baldwin then asked for "a free hand in determining the party's fiscal policy." All in favor were to signify by raising their right hands. Short-sighted Leader Baldwin peered about the hall. "Carried unanimously!'' he announced at last, drew an exclamation resembling an oath from Baron Beaverbrook...
...week, paraphrasing Herr Hitler's famed threat (TIME, Oct. 6). "What we want is to create political common sense! If anyone believes we must keep quiet and accept disorder and window breaking, then he may as well know-and this is no mere phrase-that I take an oath that physical power will not be only on the side of the others. Whoever imagines he can attack republican institutions will learn that ruffians must be dealt with by ruffian methods...
...Hoover to send a message of congratulation on the civic work done by Americans of the Lutheran faith. But in the actual message which President Hoover sent to them, for the celebration of Reformation Sunday [Nov. 2], the President clearly violates the spirit, if not the letter, of his oath of office as President of the United States...