Word: obeys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...members of the rebel Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions. Retiring Moderator William Chalmers Covert referred the matter to the Committee on Polity, which after four days of solemn deliberation set off a churchly furor by voting 21-to-1 to unseat the challenged three for their refusal to obey the 1934 Assembly's orders, resign from the Independent Board. Furiously cried one of them, Philadelphia's Rev. H. McAllister Griffiths: "The machine may find out that its high-handed tactics have at last awakened the Church to Modernist tyranny...
...decision dissolving the Standard Oil Trust, he growled: "How in hell is any court going to compel a man to compete with himself?" Few blocks away at No. 26 Broadway, home office of Standard Oil of N. J., thin, aging John D. Rockefeller took a calmer view. "We must obey the Supreme Court," he advised his six associates. "Our splendid, happy family must scatter...
...obey says toe, submit says...
Fortnight ago the Roosevelt Administration ducked its first opportunity for a clean-cut test of NRA's constitutionality when at the Government's request the Supreme Court dismissed the case against Lumberman William Elbert Belcher, who had deliberately refused to obey the Lumber Code (TIME, April 8). This procedure practically demoralized NRA's personnel, precipitated a nation-wide epidemic of petty code violations and put the Government in the equivocal position of asking for an extension of the NIRA without daring to risk a showdown on the Act's basic validity. To hush critical cries...
Unhackneyed, humorous and at times downright noble, Playwright Obey's Noah should tickle sophisticates with its whimsicality, should bring temporary comfort to those involved in life's complexities, should cause sheer delight to the pure in heart. First produced in French in Paris, Noah has the same sort of appeal as The Green Pastures. But it is clearly a product from the banks of the Seine, not the Mississippi, could not possibly be taken as an imitation...