Word: obeyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...orphans, a staff of 600, live a life more generous than the Founder ever knew. From a long waiting list the College annually selects 150 boys, indentures them until they are 18. Moppets as young as 6 are admitted. They live in dormitory groups of 25-to-35, obey a governess who sees that they take a shower every night, change their linen every second morning. As they grow older they branch out into larger sections under masters, live in regular boarding-school dormitories, enjoy open fireplaces, comfortable furniture, phonographs, radios. Except for Pennsylvania's late Governor Martin Brumbaugh...
...make certain substantive changes. Instead of telling the NRAdministrator to write whatever code he thought was best for the industry, Congress directed by law that the code should fix wages and hours of miners, should require collective bargaining, should regulate coal prices. To compel the industry to obey the code by penalizing disobedience, a 15% tax on coal production was imposed. However, any producer who operated under the code was to get back...
...Congress wrestled long with the cotton problem, finally passed the Bankhead Act compelling cotton farmers to obey AAA by putting a heavy tax on anyone who produced more than his quota. Two months later Congress wrestled again and did the same thing for tobacco growers. Last summer Congress wrestled a third time, handed potato growers a similar gift. Last week Congress had a second thought on all three subjects...
Lansing: I do not know how your Government can modify submarine warfare and make it effective and at the same time obey the law and the dictates of humanity...
...Nanking last week the Chinese Government, reorganized with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek as Premier, were in daily diplomatic, negotiation with the Japanese Government, trying to save what they could. It appeared certain that North China would not obey Nanking's order to ship all silver stocks to the Capital, because 1) Japan would not permit her prospective new puppet state to be drained of silver, and 2) North Chinese owners of silver prefer to keep it in North China, no matter who governs the area...