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...onetime King Alfonso of Spain. On the day that Ellsworth Vines won the championship, King Manoel's chair was vacant. He had waked up with a sore throat. After breakfast he went to see his physician, was ordered to bed. But not until afternoon did Dom Manoel obey. By then his throat was swelling rapidly, he was choking for breath. While his secretary telephoned frantically for Lord Dawson of Penn, Dom Manoel's diseased glottis continued to swell & swell until it blocked his windpipe, choked him to death...
Said Citizen Smart, bowing and jingling his medals, "As a soldier I will obey the edict of the court...
...total number of students now on probation is 21, of whom 16 were disciplined for having failed to obey orders of the proctors to return to their rooms...
There are two theories of Congressional behavior: 1) to subordinate individual judgment to the judgment of one's party's leadership; 2) to obey implicitly the dictates of one's constituency. Congressman La Guardia holds with neither of these theories. He lets his constituency follow him; he declines to follow his party leaders. Such behavior is usually ineffectual in positive legislative efforts and is thus a weakness. But in negative efforts, such as beating the Sales Tax, it often works well, is thus negative strength.-ED. California Minds Sirs...
...years ago the Maltese Question boiled up so hot that it took in effect the form: Will Maltese obey the King-Emperor's Premier in Malta or will they obey the Maltese clergy? Secession from the Empire was openly talked by Maltese zealots who talked of joining the Papal State...