Word: dismissal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...statute under which the Administration is seeking Morgenthau's ouster is vague about whether the President has to show malfeasance to dismiss an appointee in midterm. Moreover, Morgenthau just might launch an embarrassing campaign to remove U.S. attorneyships from the patronage rolls. He is known to believe that the jobs should not be political plums, though they now rate among the juiciest. Morgenthau's district, for example, has 70 or so assistant attorneys, who are appointed by the Attorney General...
...news reports, but it also offered another argument. By holding Calley in the military beyond his discharge date, said his lawyers, the Army is keeping him in "involuntary servitude." Arguing that a court-martial does not adequately protect a defendant's rights, they made a motion to dismiss the charges. Even Calley's career-Army lawyer, Major Kenneth Raby, concurred, quoting a recent Supreme Court decision that criticizes military trials as "marked by the age-old manifest destiny of retributive justice...
...declaring their independence by shaping their own personal ethics; on the other, they are demanding that the clergy, who ought to have the answers, somehow solve all the urgent and increasingly complex moral, technological and political issues that face society. Some say that the task is impossible and simply dismiss it; others have decided, like Hollander, that the only answer is broadly based training that equips a churchman to comprehend the clamorous needs of today's world. Like their counterparts in secular universities, seminarians do not always recommend the wisest changes for the long run; they often want to discard...
...city's economic development administration has tried to dismiss Fantus' move as a publicity stunt. The administration's chief, D. K. Patton, a former Fantus vice president, suggests that Fantus thinks it can boost its business by persuading companies to relocate. Outside opinion tends to support Yaseen. The National Industrial Conference Board reports that the chiefs of some major companies are thinking of offering executives whom they try to lure to Manhattan a "New York cost-of-living differential...
Kuss has also introduced a bill which seeks to prohibit "circulation and publication of excessively obscene literature at public institutions of higher learning." and to dismiss anyone engaging in such activities...