Word: obeys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suggest that perhaps the oath will prove not to be mandatory. Then the refusal of one man to obey the law would quickly have shown this. Next you suggest a test case on the constitutionality of the law. How is this to be brought about except by the refusal of someone to obey it? Lastly you suggest that if the law is a poor piece of legislation, as you say is "probable", Professor Mather could "arouse public opinion to influence the State Legislature in its repeal". Is this not just what he set about to do? Bert Arenson...
Under the Dictator's new orders Soviet pupils in Moscow, where 72 new schools were completed this year, will be inspected when they arrive each morning to see that their faces & hands are washed, their clothes neat. They will obey their teachers, behave with respect to elders, and show kindness to everyone. Parents, hitherto at the mercy of children who have been systematically encouraged to act as Communist spies and informers upon nonParty adults, were told that they will receive radio lectures on their new parental rights & duties. Lest all this go to the heads of Russian parents, they were...
...courts to protect his company's assets against "attempts to destroy them through punitive legislation." But most utilities were too confused last week to say precisely what they would do and when and how. Some talked of forcing the Government to take the initiative by deliberately refusing to obey the provisions of the act. Most logical time for such a test would be between Oct. 1 and Dec. 1 when 200 holding companies must register with the Securities & Exchange Commission...
...persons in Germany, including foreigners, were ordered by Cabinet decree to obey whatever instructions Reich authorities may issue "for protection against air attack." In practice this means that foreigners must now rush about with Germans, donning gas masks, popping into cellars, and having their homes rummaged by Nazi inspectors whenever Air Minister General Hermann Wilhelm Goring orders one of his realistic mock air raids...
...small Boris Brenner, a 10-year-old Young Pioneer who seemed to have been first to recognize the Dictator. "When we children surrounded Uncle Stalin and blocked his way," chirped Boris, "Uncle Stalin said, 'Hey, fellows, how about some order here?' But we kids didn't obey and continued to shout 'Hurrah...