Word: dismissals
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Americans, living now in your concrete sky-scraping tents, are still a nomad nation without any civilization". Thus does Dr. Ku Hung-Ming, writing in the New York Times calmly dismiss whatever pretensions we may cherish as to the advancement of these United States...
...Many dismiss the subject of "P. B. H." with a conscientious pecuniary donation. Not that financial assistance is unwelcome, but the ideals for which the Association stands should claim an interest leading to individual participation in its plans. Whoever devotes a proportion of his schedule to social service work will find his effort well spent,--both in the good he does for others, and the benefit he himself receives...
That a President of the United States should harshly dismiss his Secretary of State on the grounds of usurpation of executive power, because that Secretary called informal cabinet meetings during the President's incapacity, seems unthinkable. The government must function, and if the President is unable to direct its work the cabinet--those men whom the President himself has chosen as his official advisors--has not only the right but the duty to meet for discussion and interchange of ideas on pressing governmental affairs...