Word: dismissal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...alert to the danger of Communist infiltration, we should not have exaggerated fears." By the time he got through, Herb Brownell had done more than outline the Administration's coordinated program-"within the framework of the Constitution"-against the internal Communist threat. He had done his best to dismiss McCarthyism as irrelevant to the real job of fighting Communism...
...second bill would allow employers to dismiss from defense plants during a national emergency any person whose record showed he was likely to engage in sabotage or espionage. Such a measure was in force during World War H, and experience indicates that unless great discretion is used in its application, it can become a weapon of personal vindictiveness. It is conceivable, for example, that one employee might report another from motives that are personal, not patriotic...
...moment Egypt's real government−the young, twelve-man Revolutionary Command Council−was holding an emergency session to decide Naguib's fate. Three days before he had delivered an ultimatum: either the R.C.C. would give him the right to veto its decisions, to appoint and dismiss Cabinet ministers and to promote and cashier army officers, or he would quit. Naguib felt no uneasiness; since Farouk departed in July 1952, the amiable major general had become Mr. Egypt. He put on his general's cap and went home, confident...
...result of these security checks has been the suspension of 143 of the million employees involved. Of those suspended, 23 have been dismissed, 69 transferred to non-secret posts, while 19 have resigned and 9 cases are pending. Despite these small numbers the policy of the investigators was to transfer or dismiss all even doubtful cases...
...what he's doing, huh? Maybe he should get out of this business, huh? Maybe he should take up shoveling snow-we'll see if we can't arrange that." But the charge of "flat-hatting"*against aging (50) Airman Godfrey was not so easy to dismiss as an errant engineer. The charge was made by Fred...