Word: oathing
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...recent Harvard riot which was reported by Moscow newspapers as caused by hunger for food, and which the San Francisco newspapers attributed to hunger for companionship of Radcliffe belles was brought to a splendid anti-climax in court yesterday morning. Policemen under oath were a bit more honest than the press in admitting that Harvard students had been "grabbed at random" and arrested "without any idea of what they might have been guilty...
Good or bad, the MacEntee budget pleased the Laborites whose support keeps President de Valera in power. The President stuck last week to the job of keeping his other great campaign promise- his promise to abolish the Oath of Fealty to the King (TIME, Feb. 29, et seq.}. In Dublin the bill abolishing the Oath was before the Irish Senate having passed the Dail. Suddenly in London the beans were spilled by that pudgy-fingered, perennial bungler the Rt. Hon. James Henry ("Jim") Thomas, Minister of Dominions...
...statement which London editors unanimously called "ill timed," Mr. Thomas threatened that if the oath is abolished Great Britain will retaliate by refusing to renew the tariff preferences she now grants to the Free State. Obviously the timing of this threat was such as to enrage the Irish Senate just before it voted. It increased the chances that the bill would pass. Quietly jubilant in Dublin, teacherish President de Valera dryly said...
...When it is proved that the British Parliament and the Canadian Parliament cannot abolish their oaths if they choose, then and then only I will begin to think there may be some basis for Mr. Thomas' remarks." Three weeks ago Britain's House of Commons voted down 294-10-4 a British Laborite proposal to abolish its oath to George V (TIME...
Fortnight ago President de Valera's oath-abolition bill slid through first reading in the Free State Dail unopposed. Last week its second reading opened with a striking boast by Tipperary's rip-roaring Deputy Dan Breen (TIME...