Word: obey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the Mennonites' first ten years, more than 5,000 of them were killed off. Hounded from country to country and plagued by internal divisions, they persisted in Europe, doing their stubborn best to obey God and get along with man. They annoyed, baffled and roused the suspicions of their fellow Christians. Wrote Catholic Author Christoph Andreas Fischer...
Craftsmen and clerics alike obey a strict and simple regimen of devotion during their three months on Iona. Throughout the rest of the year both groups follow a daily Rule, and meet at intervals. While the Iona craftsmen spend their nine months on the mainland at their regular jobs, the ministers-each of whom has signed up for two years-go forth to preach in small towns, organize community projects in crowded industrial cities, or work in parishes that' are trying to apply the lona principles...
...hearings on bills to slam the door against portal pay suits. The one which really raised the hair of unionists was the bill of Indiana's Republican Senator Homer Capehart. It sounded reasonable. The bill would prohibit suits against any employer who had "acted in good faith" to obey the Wages & Hours Act. But under this bill, which many Congressmen favored, unionists knew that it would be almost impossible to sue an employer, even for substandard wages, which had nothing to do with portal pay. The none-too-clear Supreme Court ruling, handed down by labor...
...Malaya, the long-range prospect is even more discouraging. A self-governing Malaya assumes that the people who live there think of Malaya as a nation to which they owe allegiance. At present the Malays (41% of the population) obey their scattered sultans; the Indians (13%) give allegiance to their religious communities, and the Chinese (43%) look to China...
...Crown took his case to court. Last week at Port Arthur, Magistrate Walter Russell found Marathon guilty of "lack of intention or refusal to obey the law," fined it $400 (plus costs), ordered it to pay Colonel Johnson $12,158 (twelve weeks' salary and bonus). But Johnson did not get his job back. For Marathon, which had made no bones about its penny-pinching objective, this was cheap. Said jobless Colonel Johnson of the court's award: "With Christmas so close, it's very nice...