Word: obeys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they tremblingly lowered the steel shutters in front of their windows again. Police on the loose peppered the shutters of several shops with machine gun bullets, rode about Havana at night firing into the air and were accused of shooting down both Oppositionists and bystanders in ruthless efforts to obey Chief Ainciart's order: "Break the strikes!' Tourist steamers, fearing to dock at Havana, passed up the port. Supplies of meat, bread, oils, beer and other Cuban necessities ran alarmingly low, while prices skyrocketed. With panic spreading, Cubans remembered that Mediator Welles delivered in Havana two months...
Shouting "We are the storm troops of Jesus Christ!" the brown-shirted Storm Troops of Adolf Hitler spent the week making sure that German Protestants would obey Germany's Catholic Chancellor and vote to merge their many sects in one Nazi-dominated Evangelical Church of the German nation...
...hour week at $14 in the North, $13 in the South. Electric Goods. A 36-hour week at $12.60. Contracting. Monthly employment was cut from 206 to 150 hours, with minimum wages equaling those paid by State Highway Commissions (29? to 41? per hr.). Subcontractors were required to obey the code. "Bid peddling" was outlawed. President Roosevelt last week issued orders putting the rayon, silk and thread industries under the cotton textile code at their own request. He also gave General Johnson a permanent appointment as Industrial Administrator.† General Johnson fixed his own salary at $6,000 per year...
...famed Stahlhelm (Steel Helmets), organization of World War veterans headed by Labor Minister Franz Seldte, retired soda water manufacturer. The 1,000,000 steel helmet troopers, whom Adolf Hitler once barred from joining his Storm detachments, were told that they must join the brownshirt Storm Battalions and obey hereafter only Chancellor Hitler. Similarly dissolved and merged were the 10,000 green-shirted youths organized by Nationalist Leader Dr. Alfred Hugenberg as his party's "Battle Ring...
...father's business. Jennie goes with him, waits a long time before getting up courage to tell him about her daughter. This has no final effect on their relationship but the pressure of his family against it does. Lester resigns from his father's firm rather than obey his father's orders to dismiss his mistress. He takes Jennie abroad. When Jennie finds out what he has done, she leaves him, goes back to Chicago, builds up a life around her daughter and scraps of news about her lover. He sees her twice more: once when Jennie...