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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dean Lewis said that the suspension will be lifted when the Y.P.A. promises to obey the regulations it is charged with violating...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: C.C.N.Y. Drops 2 Y.P.A. Units for Rules Infractions | 5/27/1949 | See Source »

...appeal. We'll get an injunction. We'll get everyone in Electra down to the station blowing whistles. We'll get a cowboy singer and have him give them an adenoid solo. We'll put up stoplights at the railroad crossings and make the trains obey them-if they break the law I'll fine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: No Mourning for Electro | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

...time! Oh day! . . . Blessed are they who hear and obey their vision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Challenge | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

...Obey the Rules. Budd rescued the Burlington, chiefly by foreseeing the revolutionary potential of the diesel engine. His Pioneer Zephyr (1934) was the first diesel-powered streamliner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The First Hundred Years | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

...followers learned to obey him unquestioningly in the bloody hunger riots of 1938, which he organized with his Oxford-educated cousin, brilliant, socialist Barrister Norman Washington Manley, K.C. At rallies, Busta had only to raise his hand to get either wild cheering or deadly silence. "If there is anyone infallible," he once told his followers, "it is only me-only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CARIBBEAN: High Wind in Jamaica | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

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