Word: obeyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...candidate must know and obey the Ten Presidential Commandments. The road to Presidential conventions is strewn with the political skulls of men who have disregarded these rules...
Month ago, an Army court-martial at Monterey, Calif, sentenced slight, bespectacled Herbert Weatherbee, one of Jehovah's Witnesses, to prison for life. His crime: refusal to obey a superior officer who ordered him to salute the flag. Last week the American Civil Liberties Union publicized Weatherbee's story, adding it to the growing list of persecutions suffered by the anticlerical, religious group which refuses to bow before any "image" or to fight in any war save Jehovah...
What should be done with soldiers who desert? Should surly soldiers who refuse to obey orders be imprisoned and dishonorably discharged? Such problems, which every army must face, were being met in the U.S. last week in nine new camps designed for salvage and reclamation of substandard soldiers...
...feature, staring William Tracey as an intelligent, and not too tough Army sergeant, is amusing, if ludicrous, this time concerning a platoon of rookies from Kenfuck', who refuse to obey commands not preceded...
...well-organized army, soldiers who obey their marching orders stay out of trouble and win the fight. But in disorderly Washington, Jeffers got nothing but sore feet for his pains. He made a lot of enemies, convinced many an observer that his "bulling through" was simply bullheaded, got a dressing down this week from the House subcommittee. But Washington needs more men who will risk their hides to carry out their orders. It also needs policymakers-and organization-which will guarantee that the orders make sense...