Word: obeyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Attorneys for the roads held a joint meeting, found that if they obeyed Governor Langer's order they would run afoul of the Interstate Commerce Act. Yet Governor Langer's militia was mobilized, prepared to stop grain shipments with bayonets if necessary. The roads chose to be impaled on the Governor's embargo rather than on the Federal law. They jointly informed the Governor that they would have to accept wheat for shipment, although they "realized the paramount necessity of higher grain prices for our farmers." The roads hoped that "if the people of North Dakota obey...
...President of the U. S. has commanded you to go back to work. Any union or union officials who refuse to obey that command will not live long...
...parking violators. Many owners who received arrests for parking have not appeared at the police station. But this year, a file is kept of all persons receiving parking arrests, and those who do not appear will be mailed a second card, and will ultimately be forced to obey the strong arm of the law. At the first offense, violators will be warned, but the second time they will be sent to court where they will receive a $5 fine...
...Sing Sing inmates got a holiday when 100 of their guards marched in the local demonstration. The Tulsa parade was led by Mrs. Samuel L. Johnson, General Johnson's 77-year-old mother, who had addressed a NRA rally night before. Said she: "People had better obey the NRA because my son will enforce it like lightning, and you can never tell when lightning will strike...
...cheek was an ugly purple welt, his large, hooked nose was bleeding and everyone in the crowd of 12,000 except his managers knew he was a beaten man. At the beginning of the seventh, they counseled him, cruelly, to "go on in." Stumbling, Jeby tried to obey. Brouillard, still fresh after six rounds of arduous butchery, smashed his ribs and then his face with jolting lefts. Jeby stepped backwards, staggered, slipped slowly down to one knee, then fell flat on the canvas, face down. When Referee Pete Hartley's count reached eight, he dragged himself to one knee...