Word: obeys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mexico City, the President said: "The Catholic clergy can resume services when they desire, the only obligation being that they obey the laws. The official attitude toward the Church will continue the same...
...philosophy aims at instructing the people to obey leaders who have intelligence to guide them. But this philosophy will fail in a situation where the blind are leading the blind and know not where they are going...
...estimate of foreign contributions to U.S. native stock in the past 140 years, national origins is viewed with alarm by President Hoover, who believes its basic statistics unsound. But said Mr. Hoover: "I naturally dislike the duty. . . . But the President of the United States must be the first to obey the law." An effort will be made to repeal national origins in the special session of Congress, if the President mentions it in his message...
...Luis Potosi, now spokesman for the Roman Catholic Hierarchy in Mexico. Opening with a reference to the writer's "serenity" and "calmness," this epistle denied that the Episcopate or clergy had had any part in the recent "excesses" (dynamitings), and went on to announce that priests who obey the Government's decree requiring them to register their names and addresses (TIME, Feb. 25) "do not commit a sin ... by subjecting themselves to this humiliation . . . but if they do so it must be as a result of their own decision. . . . The government has promised not to abuse its knowledge...
...questionnaire? It testifies at once to the intellectual curiosity of the inquirer, to his industry and to the imputed zeal of the public. It is made to be answered. Presumably it is answered or the stream of questions would not flow around every subject under Heaven. The good obey meekly each request to deliver their minds and never grumble about the postage. There should be a questionnaire on "Who invented the questionnaire?" If detected, his birthday should be a national holiday. He has given us a precious "institution." It is sad to see an inferior member of the hierarchy...