Word: disobeying
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...this matter? Is it right and wise for the University to allow a group of men to call themselves the Harvard unit? Has the University as such any more right to put pressure to bear on the strikers than to dictate to the Pennsylvania railroad that it must not disobey the awards of the labor board? (as it has done...
...place the Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstead law in a class apart and to talk and act as if a citizen were free to obey or to violate them as he chose. Governor Miller recalls people to their senses with the sharp reminder that law is law. To disobey the prohibition law because you don't like it is to give a hold-up man license to take your pocketbook because he doesn't like the law against stealing...
...even a simple announcement without prolonged hand clapping. Few commanding officers have made such a quick, positive, unanimous appeal to the men under them. He was simple, alert, intelligent, straight-forward, kind, with fire and spirit underneath ready to enforce obedience, if it was possible that anyone could ever disobey him. Many a young officer in France today is the better for having as his ideal of what an American officer should be Lieutenant Colonel Shannon. The graduates of the Harvard 1917 summer military camp and the University itself owe him a great debt. His last words to the Harvard...
...Professors Cattell and Dana. Why? In most walks of life a man who fails to make good loses his job; and what failure can be more disastrous than a moral failure? No man can assail the national policy now without aiding Kaiserism. No man can counsel youth to disobey the law and expect to escape the consequences. New York World...
...Look here, what a queer; fellow you are! Why, public opinion says so." And off goes Snobling with supreme contempt for all who dare to disobey the dictates of public opinion...