Word: obeyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another speaker was John Ackerly, a member of the Cambridge police force who performs the specialized task of bringing into court those defendants in domestic cases who refuse to obey the stipulations of the probation officer and who refuse to come into court of their own accord. Mr. Donovan has developed a reputation in Cambridge for knowing the underworld...
Ostensibly the proceedings were a trial for High Treason. Three young German army officers (Lieutenants Richard Scheringer, Hans Ludin, Friedrich Wendt) were charged with inciting their men to join a Fascist putsch should it be proclaimed. Without quite admitting their guilt the young officers waxed hotly truculent. "I would obey an order to shoot down Communists," shouted Lieutenant Scheringer, "but I would disobey a command to fire on men of my own persuasion...
Would Russia obey this order? Could two private citizens successfully command a Great Power? How did they ever get to thinking that they could? Was this to be the historic test case on the outcome of which businessmen throughout the world may base their opinion of the Soviet State's good or bad faith...
...heartily approve my party's declaration that it will be responsive to the popular expression on these referendum questions. ... If a majority are recorded as favorable to repeal of the 18th Amendment, I stand ready, when elected Senator, to obey their mandate and I shall vote to submit the question of its repeal to the several States. If the expressed will of the people is for modification of the Volstead Act, my course would be in sympathy with the principle so approved...
...offered fat sums (reputedly $5.000) for a print. They wired "The Chief" in California, even besought Grandfather Dwight Morrow to intercede for them. More furious, if possible, was Capt. Joseph Medill Patterson, publisher of the Daily News. Heatedly but futilely he demanded that A. P. General Manager Kent Cooper obey the A. P. rules, supply the News with a picture...