Word: obeys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Germany the dynamic Minister of Economics grew more and more high strung. Certain of his speeches amounted to exhorting German manufacturers to dump their goods abroad at less than cost, at any price they could get for the good of the Fatherland. Manufacturers too infected with "export fatigue" to obey were threatened with Government reprisals. Then Dr. Schmitt cracked under the strain and four Berlin doctors rushed...
...last incarnation of the prophet Isaiah. On a rocky hillside he built a great ramshackle temple for his collection of handkerchiefs, canes and crutches, a colony of tents for 40-odd followers whom he called "Immortals." "I shall live forever," he told them, "and so shall you if you obey my teachings...
...Purge Speech, as Germans called it, entirely alone last week, shutting himself off from friends and advisers. He moved his office from the exposed front of the Chancellory to the back. "Every German must hear this speech!", commanded the Ministry of Propaganda and Public Enlightenment. In their eagerness to obey, German radio dealers rigged up loud speakers in almost every public square throughout the Fatherland. When even this seemed like slacking, they rushed about installing unsold radio sets in private homes, lending them free for the occasion...
...decreed, effective for the next three months: "The Minister of Economics is empowered to take all measures ... to improve German business or to prevent damage to the nation's economic structure. . . . The measures taken may be contrary to existing law. . . . The Minister of Economics may punish failure to obey his rulings with imprisonment or fines. There is no limit to the size of the fine...
...this bad news NRA received notice from Harriman Hosiery Mills that it would shut down if General Johnson did not restore the Blue Eagle he took away from it last April for failure to obey the hosiery code's labor provisions. For months General Johnson has adjured the public to buy only Blue Eagle goods. His campaign was sufficiently effective for the Harriman mill to claim it could not work without a Blue Eagle, had, in fact, already lost an order for 30,000 doz. pairs of stockings placed by the State of Pennsylvania. NRA did not rejoice over...