Word: obeying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Street most nervous is that SEC wants a new power. It wants to be able to revoke an exchange's license (or punish its members) for failure to enforce (or live up to) the exchange's own rules. It can now do so only for failure to obey SEC rules...
Shall such unity be brought about by a new feudal order with '"Jewish scapegoats, Slavic pariahs and Negro 'subhumans' . . . at the bottom" and "a militant caste of Samurai and Teutonic Knights ... at the top for all to obey?" Or (a doctrinaire never offers more than two choices) shall "America and the British democracies adopt a common currency and a common citizenship; create a common army, navy and air force under common command; and establish a provisional federal government with limited but adequate powers to provide for the common defense and the general welfare...
Defenders of the status quo claim that without maintenance of some sort of discipline at all times, on and off the army grounds, there could be no discipline in an emergency when it was needed. Soldiers will not be likely to trust and obey a captain with whom they have become familiar and perhaps got drunk, according to their theory, and familiarity of any sort breeds not only contempt but disobedience. But the lieutenant who sees his captain or even his colonel staggering out of the bar at the officers' club will have the same feeling toward...
...three days out of the week and for six weeks the harried "slaves" will carry buckets, do menial jobs, curry favor, and obey the whims of their superiors. When the competition closes November 8, the winner, who will have earned his '45 numerals, will manage the final practices and, along with his assistants, who have survived the contest, take charge of the Yale Freshman game on November...
...Crete last week reached Puget Sound. The Bainbridge Review (a suburban weekly, brightly edited by young Seattlites) burst out with a banner headline: REVIEW VIOLATES A NATIONAL CENSORSHIP. Prefacing its editorial with the statement, "For several weeks now the Review has been torn between a normal desire to obey an unofficial Government censorship and what we feel deeply to be a solemn duty to our readers," the Review announced that the British battleship Warspite was in the Bremerton Navy Yard near Seattle for repairs. The Review's reasons...