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...bleak March day three years ago when Franklin Roosevelt stepped up and took the oath of office, he was a national hope. A month later he was a national hero. He had won the heart of a frightened nation by the height at which he held his head, the breadth to which his smile expanded, by self-confidence that seemed almost Olympian. Seldom since then had his self-confidence failed him. It enabled him to propose and get Congress to approve frank experiments. It gave him courage to ask Congress for sums of money that no other peacetime President...
...Edward II of the United Kingdom, since England's first six Edwards were Kings neither of Scotland nor of the United Kingdom. In many things His Majesty must defer to his Scottish subjects. Indeed the first act of any British Monarch after his accession is to take the oath by which he swears to defend the Church of Scotland. Last week's row about "Edward II," however, was simply ignored by Edward VIII. He officially designated his mother "Queen Mary" and she will therefore not be known as the Queen Mother or Dowager Queen, designations out of keeping...
...that "Fascist" terror, force, violence and intimidation were on the increase in 1935. Last Sunday all U. S. Unitarian ministers were invited to read and comment upon a "Statement on Civil and Religious Liberties" sent out by the Unitarian Department of Social Relations. The Statement particularly deplored teachers' oath statutes...
Last week, while Professor Mather fulminated from the security of his classroom, the first two casualties in the Battle of the Oath occurred at nearby Tufts College (Medford). Both were department chairmen. Rather than sign unconditional oaths, both offered their resignations to Tufts' President John Albert Cousens, himself a strong opponent of the oath. President Cousens and his trustees, fearing for the college's legislative charter, regretfully accepted the resignations...
...pension, observed that his fellow casualty ''has much more at stake." But Economist Earl Micajah Winslow, 39, a Mayflower descendant and a Quaker, will probably be welcomed as a martyr on the faculty of any university in the 22 states which have no teachers' oath...