Word: dismissal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their Hershey meeting, the Republicans merely papered over some of their internal fissures, but enough were fully healed to permit Dwight Eisenhower to dismiss "any uncertainties I may have felt as to the fitness, adequacy and quality" of Barry Goldwater as a candidate for President. Said Ike: "I am right on his team." As the Democrats prepared to nominate Lyndon Johnson by acclamation, the only question for them was the choice of a candidate for Vice President, and it was still a question. As of last week, the President had not yet made up his mind, although on public form...
Defense counsel Edward Barshak said last night that Judge Parker was concerned with setting the record straight concerning the police's conduct, and after a 40 minute meeting with the attorneys agreed to dismiss the case if such a statement were signed...
...those who had ears to hear, Faulkner was offering these things more than a quarter-century ago, back when the public that was embracing Gone With the Wind could dismiss the South's sporadic violence (119 lynchings in the '30s) and constant racial repression as merely a peculiar regional problem. Faulkner himself was often treated as a strictly regional writer...
After a thorough tryout, Judge Boldt pronounced his new courtroom "greatly preferable" to the old design on a number of counts. Because the jury box and bench are far apart, he found that he could confer with attorneys off the record without having to dismiss the jury -a time-wasting maneuver in other courtrooms. He also noted a "calmness and ease" during trials because "everybody could see and hear without strain." He liked especially his more direct view of the witness stand ("I can practically take a head-on look") and his eyeline relation to the jury ("The judge...
...Empowers the government to cancel anyone's political rights for ten years, dismiss Congressmen, state deputies, city councilmen; fire any federal, state or municipal employee found guilty of acts against democracy, national security, and "the probity of public administration." In other words, out with the Communists and crooks...