Word: obeyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...told of the President's trip by a stranger on a trolley. A Detroit reporter was flabbergasted when a courthouse official spouted: "Yeah, I know all about it. Roosevelt and Churchill conferred in North Africa." In Wilkes-Barre, Pa. striking anthracite miners declined for a while to obey a Presidential request that they return to work because "it's a phony; the President's not in Washington." A Portland, Ore. reporter was informed by his wife that the President had been in Africa: she had heard it from her mother, who had heard it from her second...
...progressive education: "I am a great believer in the vital importance for character building of that which comes from training in old-fashioned obedience. . . . The farther we move toward the Golden Age in which the people shall rule, the more vital becomes the necessity that the people shall obey." His passion for civic as well as scholastic discipline won him undeserved notoriety as a prohibitionist. Sighed he: "Although I was never a prohibitionist, I rarely succeeded in making anybody believe there was a distinction between a prohibitionist and a law-enforcement...
Kept After School. In Los Angeles, a judge who found Schoolteacher Winifred Hunt guilty of a traffic violation produced a blackboard, had her write "I will obey all traffic laws" 100 times before she could go home...
...remain your guide. You have but one duty: Obey. You have but one government, over which I have been given power to govern. You have but one country, France, which I incarnate...
...Dear Mr. Avery" letter. Chances were it would work. Though he pooh-poohed the validity of the powers that Franklin Roosevelt delegated to WLB, Mr. Avery also said: "... If the President of the United States . . . directs that Wards accept the Board's rulings ... we will respectfully obey...