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When George Baker first got into the God game back in 1907, the pantheon was packed. What with such ranking deities as Father Obey, Elijah of the Fiery Chariot, St. John the Vine, and Joe World, among many others, the heavenly host could hardly muster enough worshipers to go around. So George, an itinerant lawn mower and hedge clipper from Georgia, settled for an apprentice apostleship - a "God in the Sonship Degree" - with Father Jehovia, a former Pittsburgh steelworker who had a cult in Baltimore...
Last spring 167 persons demonstrated before the Alabama state capitol in Montgomery and were charged variously with loitering, disturbing the peace and refusing to obey officers. Also arrested were 16 persons who had demonstrated at Montgomery's predominantly Negro Alabama State College. The charge against them: trespassing. Both groups sought to have their cases transferred from local to federal court, on the grounds that they were exercising their constitutional rights...
...disobedience under the guise of demonstrating or protesting for 'civil rights.' The philosophy that a person may-if his cause is labeled 'civil rights' or 'states' rights'-determine for himself what laws and court decisions are morally right or wrong and either obey or refuse to obey them according to his own determination, is a philosophy that is foreign to our 'rule-of-law' theory of government...
...their distaste for military rules in every U.S. war since the Revolution. But Congress was also aware of the professional soldier's compelling argument that autocracy is a military necessity. As General William Tecumseh Sherman warned in 1879: "An army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army...
...accounts, does Lyndon Johnson, the man whom Humphrey promised to love, honor and obey when he took on the vice-presidency. Wherever Johnson cannot be, Humphrey is. Last week that meant a two-day, five-speech swing around the Western U.S. Landing in San Diego, he plunged into a sea of greeting hands. "How are you, young lady?" he bubblingly inquired of a woman who must have been...