Word: dismissed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Charlie Chaplin's legal woes weathered two court actions. They cleared up in Los Angeles, where Joan Berry's charges that she had been deprived of her civil rights were dismissed. They clouded up in San Francisco, where the court refused to dismiss Joan's paternity suit...
...authority"-suits them well. George VI cannot dismiss, disparage or even threaten his ministers. As was shown in the case of his brother, Edward VIII, they can evict him. But no minister of-the King, nor any truly British socialist, would ever dare to raise hand or voice against the Monarchy. The institution is the thing...
...smack in the middle of the District of Columbia. For two years the War Labor Board has bluntly told industry that a maintenance-of-union-membership clause is the logical reward due Labor for the no-strike pledge. But last week WLB filed a motion asking the Court to dismiss a request for an injunction against its enforcement of that key clause. The injunction was sought by the U.S. Gypsum Co., whose board chairman, Sewell Lee Avery (who also heads Montgomery Ward), has never been noted for his love of labor...
...taxpayers that the man-hours, materials and money already spent on Canol have been an "inexcusable" waste. The committee admitted that the Army might be partially forgiven a mis take during the frenzied months after Pearl Harbor. But what the Committee could not condone, nor ask the U.S. to dismiss lightly, was the stubborn brass-hattery which had refused, time & time again, to correct, or even to admit the original blunder. The Army had been amply warned...
Democrats tried to dismiss Kentucky's clincher as "local issues." The New York Times's Arthur Krock, who used to live in the Fourth himself, judiciously summed up: "If the result did not foreshadow a certain Republican victory next year, it increased the prospect...