Word: obeys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...American cartoon pictures first a stoutish gentleman telling a group of students who gaze awesomely up at him that he would not obey the law "by swearing allegiance to state and federal constitutions...
...guards to hand down rifles to the inmates. Others covered two guards. In a room nearby, the warden's secretary, Jack Whalen, heard the commotion, recalled what Warden Larkin had told the prison staff: "If I am ever kidnapped and I order you not to shoot and you obey my order, you won't be here next day. No matter what I tell you, you start shooting." Whalen telephoned the watch tower guards to expect trouble. When the convicts, taking Warden Larkin and the guards with them, reached the prison yard, the captive guards put up a fight...
...owned buildings had the "honor" of sprouting both German and Italian flags, Jewish premises could only fly the tricolor of Italy. To greet the Dictators when they arrived at 5:30 p. m., Berlin's whole teeming proletariat had turned out for a holiday "with pay," proceeded to obey exhortations from Dr. Goebbels to cheer themselves hoarse. Through Berlin streets rode the Dictators, and II Duce was installed as, reportedly, "the first occupant" of the President's rooms in the Hindenburg Palace since "the old gentleman's" death...
Motoring procedure in Moscow is for small-shots to obey the traffic lights. A big-shot will occasionally stop for a red light, usually goes through it at about 20 miles per hour, while small-shots who have the green light with them jam on their brakes. A bigger-shot, his 8-cylinder car followed by a 4-cylinder containing five secret police in caps and leather overcoats, takes the red lights at about 40 miles per hour, horn screeching as he nears the intersection...
...Board, the case was not ended, for the ballots of 155 clerks and maintenance men were challenged by both A. F. of L. and C.I.O., and the election was thrown back into the lap cf the Labor Board. The broader question of the case -whether an employer should obey the Board or the bench when their orders conflict-also remained to be settled in what may well be another Supreme Court test of the Wagner...