Word: obeys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Committee's investigation of J. P. Morgan & Co. was transferred to hoarder-hunting. Investigators marched in upon suspects, flashed their badges, read the President's proclamation aloud, ordered them to disgorge. Of the first 1,838 queried, 95 with gold hoards of $660,601 flatly refused to obey, defied the Government to prosecute. Their names were promptly delivered to the Department of Justice's criminal division. Declared "General" Cummings: "I have no patience with people who follow a course which in war time would class them as slackers. If I have to make an example of some...
...admitted to the house; they welcomed her, treated her like one of themselves-all except one woman who had seen her mother raped by foreign soldiers. The Lins begged their visitor to excuse this relative's prejudice. Admitted to their hospitality, Nora Waln also had to obey their rules. After being presented to Kuei-tzu (Lady of First Authority in the House of Exile) she was forbidden to appear again until "sufficiently civilized" to hear and speak for herself; all members of the family were forbidden to speak to her again in any language except Chinese. Consequently she soon...
...author was smart little Hugo Black of Alabama, lawyer, War veteran, economic idealist. Senator Black & friends predicted his bill would supply 6,000,000 men with work, on the theory that the employer who wants to keep his production at current levels must hire 25% more workers to obey the law. President Green of the A. F. of L. jubilated: "It's the first constructive measure yet passed dealing with unemployment. It strikes at the root of the problem - technological unemployment...
...Cage when Lloyd's covered both him and his animals, Beatty has never paid a cent for life insurance. With a whip, a kitchen chair, a revolver loaded with blanks, he persuades his refractory felines to sit on pedestals, cower, roll over. With fangy reluctance they obey...
...take over 50% of the deposits and the liquid assets of the old banks. It struck Detroit's businessmen as ruinous to liquidate their two old banks, but they regarded the word from Washington as an ultimatum. They despatched a flight of telegrams in protest* and convened to obey. Meetings began. Alfred P. Sloan...