Word: obey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same week responsible New Orleans moderates turned out 1,600 strong for a testimonial dinner to five members of their board of education who have been battling the state legislature in an effort to obey the court. But tensions were high. On the eve of New Orleans' famed Mardi Gras more than 100 Negro organizations canceled their usual celebrations. Schwegmann's supermarket chain advertised a formal denial in the Times-Picayune that sales of ice picks and lye have been heavier than usual...
...upset his proud personality. But he never failed to carry out the orders received, not only with discipline, but adding to them the wellspring of his faith." For today's France, at any rate, the lesson was clear: De Gaulle expects every man to do his duty-and obey orders...
...point at issue is one that plagues all armies: Should an officer obey orders that he believes violate his conscience or his honor? German generals were found guilty at Nurnberg and executed by the Allies because they did not place conscience above orders from Hitler. Soviet officers at Budapest were reportedly executed by the Red army when they did put conscience above orders and refused to shoot down Hungarian freedom fighters. In World War II, Charles de Gaulle's conscience drove him to disobey the orders of Marshal Pétain when he escaped to Britain...
Massive Retreat. No one seemed more aware of the fact that Georgia had to obey national authority than Governor S. Ernest Vandiver, who stepped before the lawmakers, "as a devoted father," with a sweeping plan for giving up massive resistance to integration. It was a momentous gesture, in marked contrast to such other Deep South resisters as Alabama's Governor John Patterson, who vowed last week to close his university in the face of any integration...
...twinge of regret: in April, he upheld a ruling of District Court Judge Frank Johnson Jr. that Montgomery could not segregate its public parks, but noted that the decision was a Pyrrhic one for the Negro plaintiffs since the city was sure to close the parks rather than obey (it did). Last year also, in the Goldsby case, Rives established the far-reaching principle that Negroes cannot be convicted of crime in counties that bar them from jury service...