Word: obeys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate is preparing to obey its own mandate that on Jan. 6 it shall act on the President's veto of the bill which increases the salaries of postal employes. The cost of the proposed pay increases will be between 60 and 70 million dollars a year. The President vetoed it for reasons of economy, saying that it must be accompanied by a measure for raising the extra money...
...Eleventh Sudanese Regiment at Khartum in the Sudan mutinied, started to march to Gordon College. Near the Egyptian military hospital in the Khedivial Avenue they bumped into two platoons of a British Egyptian regiment; both came to a halt. The British officer went forward, exhorted the Sudanese to obey orders, but the Sudanese refused. At this moment the acting Sirdar, Colonel Huddleston, rode up and went forward in front of the British troops to urge sanity on the Sudanese. But the Sudanese merely declined to recognize the Sirdar. Orders were then given to round up the mutineers...
...Paddington Station, a reporter presumed, in a question, that Mr. Baldwin had accepted the King's summons. The prospective Premier countered: "Is it not the duty of every subject to obey the commands of the King...
Mexico. When must a church refuse to obey the civil law? As a point in practical churchmanship, this question faced 94 bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Manhattan, in solemn session assembled in Synod Hall of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine...
Some time ago the Cambridge Police issued a warning to all students advising them to obey the traffic parking rules, especially the ones relating to night parking. In the opinion of the Chief of Police the time for action has come, and hereafter any persons convicted of breaking parking rules will be liable to a fine of $20, and will have their names placed on record...