Word: obeys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jack Cahill, Bill Campbell took on a dean of the bar in Weymouth Kirkland and forced him to obey a subpoena for key evidence in the Annenberg case, which Lawyer Kirkland unsuccessfully tried to ignore on the ground of sanctity in the relation between lawyer & client. In Bill Campbell's hands will be the red-hot Skidmore case. Cardinal Mundelein and labor-loving Bishop Sheil are among his most active admirers...
...sprung last week on the members of the Grand Council of the Falange Espanola Tradidonalista, the new Fascist substitute for Parliament. Raimundo Fernandez Cuesta, secretary general of Spain's only party, demanded "blind obedience" to Generalissimo Franco, ended by proposing an oath: "We proclaim our inflexible will to obey unconditionally the orders of our Caudillo. As proof of that sacred promise, let the Councillors of the Falange swear with me before God always to obey the Caudillo and those who receive from him the power of commandment." The Councillors swore...
...Pacific, a cardinal Navy doctrine which Alfred Mahan formulated is news. Just before Roosevelt I retired from the Presidency, Alfred Mahan asked him to urge William Howard Taft "on no account to divide the battleship force between the two coasts. . . ." Whereupon T. R. wrote "Dear Will: . . . I should obey no direction of Congress and pay heed to no popular sentiment, if it went wrong in so vital a matter. . . . Keep the battle fleet either in one ocean or the other. . . ." Roosevelt I qualified by saying "prior to the completion of the Panama Canal," but today's admirals as good...
Censorship? To every British editor an Admiralty "D" notice is something he must obey or risk prosecution under the Official Secrets Act. Hangover from the World War, the "D" notice is often used on news of warship movements, and was prominently used in 1935 during the Ethiopian crisis, when newspapers were ordered not to print the departure of the British fleet to the Mediterranean. No "D" or any other kind of order, however, has ever been issued forbidding the report of a responsible Cabinet Minister's speech; in fact, such an order seemed a clear infraction of freedom...
...Djibouti, the Addis Ababa railway, and a share in the Suez Canal. But England was confident three weeks ago that Adolf Hitler would behave himself. As for the Italian people, they were anxious for glory but somewhat jittery. Signor Mussolini closed his speech with an old Fascist motto: "Believe! Obey! Fight!" The Italians knew whom to obey, but just what to believe and whom they would have to fight was a big mystery...