Word: dismissals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fantastic note was introduced into the proceedings when a buxom mysterious lady known as Jeannette M. Lewis suddenly appeared in Montreal and announced that she was prepared to lend Newfoundland $109,000,000, presumably taking Labrador in security (TIME. Aug. 10). Miss Lewis disappeared and newspapers were about to dismiss the entire story when she reappeared in St. John's in September and made the same offer over again...
Last week 8,000 cigarmakers struck in Tampa, Fla. Their "readers" had been dismissed. Plant managers had caught them slipping bits of Communistic literature into their offerings. The workers struck in protest, claimed that only they could dismiss the readers since they paid them. The strike got serious when the workers went back, found the factories locked as the operators had warned they would be. Now deadlocked, the cigar industry is Tampa's biggest. Normal daily output is more than 1,000,000 cigars, the monthly payroll above...
Hanover, N. B., November 8. Not until darkness had shrouded the practice field did Coach Jackson Caunell dismiss his football charges this afternoon. In a long session he drilled the Big Green players in all the tricks of an effective offense, stressing both passes and running plays...
...regulatory commissions of North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska and Kansas clubbed together to ask the I. C. C. to dismiss the railroads' petition. They argued that the Federal commission had no legal authority to up freight rates on a mere showing of financial emergency and that, in addition, the roads had offered no evidence that such an increase would improve their revenues and credit. The I. C. C. postponed consideration of this joint request...
...court refused to dismiss the action...