Word: dismissal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British (unofficially represented by Tory M.P. Robert Boothby) disliked Reynaud's accusations, but could not quite dismiss them. They talked of Britain's interlocking circles: partnership with Commonwealth and Empire, alliance with the U.S., and treaty with Western Europe. Wanting to operate in all three circles, Britain is unwilling to unite with the continental countries; Scandinavia won't unite with them unless Britain does, and the other countries refuse to unite among themselves without ,the British and Scandinavians...
They were: a bill requiring college presidents to dismiss Communists from their faculties; another outlawing the Communist Party; and a third calling for loyalty oaths from all lawyers and setting up a series of penalties for participation in subversive groups...
...TIME serious in its Oct. 22 description of Walt Whitman as an "anarchic old yawper?" Does TIME dismiss then such treasures of American literature as "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd," "O Captain! My Captain!" "Bivouac on a Mountain Side," and "Song of Myself" to be the mere yawping of an anarchist...
...assure you," he said, while Bill Boyle stared glumly at the ceiling, "that if there is anyone in headquarters who should not be there, or whose hands are not clean, I shall dismiss him . . ." Then, with a series of broom-strokes, he: 1) demanded, within 48 hours, a detailed description of every committee employee's job, salary and political references; 2) promised to weed out "supernumeraries"; 3) froze all committee expenditures until a new executive committee could audit the budget; 4) declared he would serve without salary. (Boyle was paid $35,000 a year.) "May no act of mine...
Last week, the Senate passed a milder measure which incorporated a bill outlawing the Communist Party with one requiring college presidents to dismiss Communists from their teaching staffs and another demanding loyalty oaths of all lawyers. The Senate also suggested court action against organizations and persons advocating overthrow of the government, but did not mention Communists...