Word: disobeyance
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...eliminating squeeze must begin here in the very center of the northeast. Those who have illegally seized houses and lands from civilians must restore them immediately to their rightful owners. This is an order. We will cure or kill. Or we'll send those who disobey home without houses and lands. . . . Some of you sitting here, whose names I'll not mention, have been talking smartly, but let me warn you that accusations have been made." The 100 guests no longer smiled...
...order the system stopped. But if the industry chooses to disobey, the question will have to be fought out in the courts. So far, FTC's efforts to win similar cases in the courts have failed. The last precedent was a 1946 decision by the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago, which refused tp enforce an FTC order for the cement industry to abandon a similar multiple basing point system...
...explained how: "On Aug. 1 Botertzev, chief bookkeeper, and Kisko, chief of the planning department, called officials together, said 'Savchenko, the trust manager, has confirmed your July output,' and then shoved at them a paper to sign in which the actual output was greatly falsified. Afraid to disobey their chiefs, chief engineer Bulkanov and chief bookkeeper Sopelkin signed the paper...
Organized by reporters on every governmental beat, they police the release of news. Often, at the request of a Government official, a club tells newspapers what not to print. Those who disobey are suspended, i.e., get no more news. The Finance Ministry, which controls the Government tobacco monopoly, keeps its club members well stocked with rationed cigarets. Members of the Transportation Ministry Reporters' Club get free train passes. Other offices hand out tinned food, shoes, uniforms, etc. to club members...
...burning Frankfurt, he remembers,. Garrison Soldier Helmut Lotz killed himself, wife and two children rather than disobey the order to evacuate. "He saw only one way out." In Leipzig, Knauth met a girl with whom he had played as a child. "What have I had out of life?" she asked. "I was 15 when the Nazis came. That is a happy age for girls but I don't remember any happiness. ... I can't remember that I have ever been free of a sense of doom about this country, since the Nazis came. They ruined what they touched...