Word: dismissal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soon as Dreier's lawyer heard the testimony, he asked the court to dismiss the case, and the suit was summarily dropped. Last week Mayor Dreier was sitting mum in office while the district attorney looked over the record to see if there were grounds for criminal action. Said a headline in the Philadelphia Bulletin: PEOPLE OF NANTICOKE ASK "WHERE'S OUR MAYOR SINCE HE DROPPED THAT $100,000 LIBEL SUIT...
Green pointed out that there was 'so much premeditation" involved in the march on the Annex that he could not dismiss or file the case. "Just because the boys come here to school doesn't mean they can raise hob," he said. "Residents of Cambridge are entitled to be protected...
...dollar to spare just now, the mailman will plunk his ticket on the nearest flat surface with the promise to come back for the dollar later. Some, perhaps, with iron wills and few correspondents are able to think of the postal solicitors as annual nuisances, whom they can dismiss with a series of flat, firm "no's." Many more, defeated by timidity and high-pressure salesmanship, surrender their dollars...
...York Timesman Arthur Krock subsequently reported that in this talk the Attorney General had conducted a running argument with the President. Its gist: since Truman and McGrath were agreed on holding up the Morris questionnaire and the need to dismiss Morris, it ought to be recorded in announcements by both the White House and the Justice Department. The President, said Krock, moved away from the argument. Later, McGrath and Short kicked it around some more; the presidential aide thought that both Morris and McGrath ought to go. The Attorney General protested that this would make him a "goat...
...should start about ten o'clock and last about an hour, Lawrence D. Shubow '43, attorney for Dirk Jan Struik, assured me Wednesday night when asked what time the motion to dismiss the indictment against the suspended M.I.T. professor would come up in Middlesex county-Superior Court, Criminal Session...