Word: obeying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wirt A. Warren, a mild-mannered physician with a good practice in Wichita, Kans., sat down and wrote a letter to the Department of Justice in Washington. "This will inform you," he wrote, "that I am not obeying and do not intend to obey . . . that portion of the [Selective Service] act ... providing a penalty for knowingly counseling . . . evasion of registration or service . . . The act is a law which I feel morally bound to break...
...Pearl Harbor, fought the biggest, most imaginative and magnificent sea war in history. When peace was won, and they were asked to mothball most of the great and glorious fleet and surrender power and prerogatives, minds shaped by the Navy's great years found it hard to obey...
Although the talk will emphasize the part of the case dealing with the "duty to obey a void degree," Professor Chafee's speech will not be "too technical...
...complaints of Cambridge cabbies are concerned, Davis is wont to turn a deaf car. For something like 40 years, he explains, the hackies have dominated the Square. With rotary traffic, the days of reckless U-turns are gone for the cab drivers; they must obey the new laws as much as any one else...
...grounds that cars on the street at night are a hazard to the Fire Department, claiming that the firemen need plenty of room to maneuver their big equipment. But the fire department has pointed out that it can get its hook and ladders through any streets where parkers obey the daytime parking signs. The only possible justification for the ordinance is thus an imaginary one, yet the law stands put on the books...