Word: dismissed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Employers may not dismiss a "directed worker," nor "hire or try to hire" new personnel except through the Government. Maximum punishment for infractions: ?100 ($400) fine or three months in prison. Cooed Minister Isaacs: ". . . It will be necessary to force only a small minority to accept essential jobs against their will...
...Born in Lisbon in 1647, De Britto became a Jesuit at 15. In 1673 he traveled to India to preach Christianity. He converted a Maravese prince and then demanded that the prince dismiss all of his wives but one. Among the wives was a niece of the King of Marava; she objected so effectively that De Britto was beheaded...
...flat refusal to be brushed off lightly was having its effect. Stassenites claimed growing strength, spreading out from Minnesota through the upper Mississippi Valley, into the prairie and border states, with tentacles reaching into New England and the Pacific Northwest. The pros could dismiss much of that as sheer partisan exuberance. But a Gallup poll a fortnight ago showed 44% of G.O.P. voters approving his policies, only 21% opposed (for Dewey, 74%; opposed...
...both towns had Communist mayors, but they got different treatment from their bosses. Little Eugeni played the Duce: "Qui comando io!" (Here, I command!) were his favorite words as he pounded a wobbly table. When he decided to dismiss lower officials like the village doctor, he wrote simply: "Dear Dr. Pirro, I have the honor to inform you you have been fired, (signed) Eugeni." He also fined Village Priest Don Vittorio for collecting money for the harvest festival without his authorization...
...doing so, Dakin so simplified the complex theory of cycles that some hard-headed businessmen and conservative economists may dismiss the whole thing as moonshine. Nevertheless, Dewey, who insists that the theory is based on objective facts, was an accurate enough prophet to predict, in 1943, what many experts are now saying, that the boom would reach its peak in 1947. And Shelf Union Oil Corp., welcoming even a beam of moonshine in the murky field of economics, has recommended the book for its executives...