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Word: obeyed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...found he had lost $117. He got a policeman to arrest his party companion, a Negro lady named Miss Reno Jones. In court, the judge told Otto Prignitz he must wait, perhaps several weeks, to testify against Miss Jones. "I cannot wait that long," blustered Otto Prignitz. "I must obey Führer Hitler and get back to Germany at once. It is obvious I am needed there." The judge decided to make sure that the alleged thief of Patriot Prignitz's cash should not go untried. He held the robbed man in $5,000 bail as a material...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Homeseekers | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

...1860s, where the Wolf and the Obey Rivers run together to make the Cumberland, Billy Hull moved with his bride." (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 22, 1940 | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

...Cumberland is formed by the junction of Poor Fork and Clover Fork of Cumberland at Baxter, in Harlan County, Kentucky, some 200 miles upstream from Celina where the Obey flows into the Cumberland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 22, 1940 | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

...charge of censorship Vargas put young Civis Muller, an officer of Brazil's Federal District Police. Censor Muller, ambitious, fond of authority, but with no newspaper experience whatever, issued a series of exacting regulations, some of them virtually impossible to obey, put censors in every Brazilian editor's office, large or small, in the offices of such foreign news agencies as United Press, Associated Press, Britain's Reuter's, France's Havas, Germany's Deutsches Nachrichten Bureau...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: President's Breakfast | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

Billy Hull moonshined for awhile. Then, when he had his first $1,000, he bought a stand of fine poplars, logged them himself, snaked them down to the Obey River with a pair of steers. He became a timberman. From 1870 to 1900 millions of walnut and poplar logs went to the Nashville mills. Billy Hull, with his red tool box and little round cap without a bill, stayed with the lumber-rafting business long after Son Cord was a prominent politician...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Saint In Serge | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

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