Word: obey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Franz Lehar, venerable (74), Hungarian-born Viennese operetta king, composer of Adolf Hitler's favorite operetta, The Merry Widow (1905), was reported under "house arrest" in his Vienna home. Aryan Lehar's only other reported brush with the Nazis occurred three years ago when he refused to obey Nazi orders to leave his Jewish wife...
...General into Avery's paneled office. General Byron handed Avery President Roosevelt's order directing the U.S. Army to seize Ward's $302 million mail order and retail business for the second time in seven months. Franklin Roosevelt also ordered Ward's to obey two War Labor Board directives: 1) to pay retroactive raises to 17% of Ward's 70,000 employes;* 2) to sign a union contract guaranteeing maintenance of membership. Sputtered Sewell Avery, the New Deal's No. 1 industrial hairshirt: "Arbitrary . . . coercive . . . illegal." Citing Roosevelt's failure to act against...
...Dictator's police tried to dam the tide of underground literature, including "suppressed" articles from U.S. magazines. At last, the Dictator yielded a trifle. His Minister of Justice and Labor, Alexandre Marcondes Filho, told reporters: "Elections are being studied. . . . The process will obey democratic norms...
...opinionated, Virginia-born peeress-politico, first woman to sit in the House of Commons, announced that she would retire from 25 years of politics at term's end, confided, "I will not fight the next election because my husband does not want me to. ... I am bound to obey. Is not that a triumph for men?" Said, her husband, Lord Astor: "When I married Nancy, I hitched my wagon to a star. When she got into the House I found I had hitched my wagon to a sort of V-2 rocket! But the star which is Nancy Astor...
Scowlfully looking, the valiant prince, Diomedes, addressed him: "Buddy, sit thee in silence; obey my word as I bid thee...