Word: dismissed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year to Madison, Wis., to find Harris with baggage and Mrs. Clark,. Harris agreed to pay $200,000 in trust for Clark's two children, $500 a month for life to Clark. A month later Mrs. Clark divorced him in Reno, six months later the payments stopped. Moving to dismiss the action, Banker Harris' attorney said: "Shocking and revolting . . . against public policy and corrupt and void...
...layman, conducted himself in such a way as to increase influences which the authorities considered undesirable from the point of view of the general welfare of the college, of the city, and of society as a whole, then they had a perfect right to dismiss...
Although almost all of the pictures depicting the Sacco-Vanzetti affair merge on caricature, there is more of art than mere clever distortion in these gouaches. When the exhibit appeared at the Downtown Gallery in New York City, many were inclined to dismiss the whole of Shahn's work as comic-strip treatment of more serious topics, yet even the poignancy that speaks from each picture is testimony that there is something more permanent than grim humor here...
...will give in forming the opinions of the voters that its real value lies. In general students declare for candidates without the reflection and information which should precede the decisions of intelligent persons. They are influenced by the desire to be different, and become fair weather radicals, or they dismiss the issues as not involving them, oblivious of the fact that they are destined to become the leaders in this failing democracy, and that some preparation for leadership is necessary. If the CRIMSON poll is successful, it will draw student interest to the important events of the next few weeks...
...actually removed him but the Mayor, his counsel and most observers realized that his defense has not helped his case. On the witness stand the Mayor's wriggling and squirming under the Governor's pointed questions had made an unfavorable impression. Every ruling had gone against him. Refusing to dismiss the charges without hearing more witnesses, the Governor had exploded that he was "fed up" with the niggling tactics of the Mayor's counsel...