Word: dismissal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That solution means absolute military superiority not only of the area within the Caribbean ring but of the Latin-American approaches beyond it, the approaches from Africa and Europe as well. That is why Army and Naval officers in the Canal Zone impatiently dismiss queries and quibbles about the Canal's local defenses. The Canal is still a focal point of the Caribbean defense system. But the Canal's defense today is just as good as and no better than the defenses of Trinidad, Puerto Rico and the other outlying U.S. bases...
This was the result of negotiations terminated on March 24 by Aldrich Durant '02, business manager of the University, Joseph Stefani, secretary-treasurer of the Cooks' and Pastry Cooks' Union, and Eva Rankin of the Waitresses' Union. According to that contract, the University agreed to dismiss all employee-union members whose unpaid dues up to twelve dollars were not paid before April...
...Department will have to dismiss some of the assistants in the advanced courses, but all the men in the three largest Anthropology courses will be retained...
...straws showed a rising gale, a growing disposition of men in and out of Government to question whether democracy could afford all its liberties, a disposition to uproot minorities whose views seemed to them subversive. Last week in New York City the uprooting began: school authorities started proceedings to dismiss teachers for being Communists...
...Plan. Britain's reservoir of man power, he explained, has now run "practically dry," and in order to fill war factories just coming into production, organization and restrictions must be imposed. In vital industries the right to dismiss employes, except for misconduct, will be removed from owners and managers. Employes may no longer leave their jobs without permission. People whom the Government considers to be in nonessential employment will be shifted, and nonessential industries may be temporarily suspended. Britain's women, Bevin declared, will also have to toe whatever line the Government draws, even if it means placing...