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Next day 62-year-old Ruby Laffoon, oldtime lawyer and judge, presented himself on the Capitol esplanade to take the Governor's oath. Tall (6 ft.), solid (180 lb.), with crow's feet around kindly eyes, big mouth and a booming bass voice, Democrat Laffoon had won last month's election in no small measure by his ability to put names to faces. He first met Grover Cleveland when as a lad he had marched into the White House with a paper which he doggedly refused to give to any one but the President himself...
...took no oath of office. "I solemnly promise" said President Alcala Zamora, "on my honor before the Constituent Cortes . . . faithfully to serve the Republic, respect and enforce the Constitution . . . and devote my activity as Chief of State to the service and justice of Spain...
Ever since Italian schools opened this year Catholic teachers have been writing to Pope Pius XI. What was the Holy Father's opinion, they asked, of the Italian requirement that every school-teacher take an oath of allegiance to "the King, his royal successor, and the Fascist regime," when His Holiness in his encyclical of last July had condemned the Fascist oath of allegiance and urged Catholics to take it "with mental reservations...
After deep thought the Holy Father pointed out that the oath as administered to teachers was different from the regular oath of allegiance to the party, therefore this oath could be taken with no reservations "except those always expected of Catholics regarding the rights of God and the Church...
...this chapter naturally expressed disapproval. But the necessity, and even the advisability, of such secrecy, was called into question before many years had passed. The anti-Masonic agitation of the eighteen-twenties and thirties did not pass by Phi Beta Kappa, which was attacked for binding its members by oath not to disclose its secrets. In 1831, the President of the Harvard chapter, Edward Everett, wrote a letter to Mr. Justice Story, in which he stated: "Several friends with whom I have conversed, think it expedient wholly to drop the affectation of secrecy. . . One gentleman thinks the Society useless, & that...