Word: dismissed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...protests of a misled bishop (John Williams). There are very few superfluous scenes. The ability of the director to achieve relief humor in an especially tense situation is typified at one point when Miss George must interview the resolute bishop for 20 minutes without giving him a chance to dismiss the professor...
...jury," he said, "I tremble at what you did. One of the great bulwarks of our country is the jury system. Every little blot on that system -and this verdict is a blot on it-if continued and added to will gather into a great darkness. I dismiss you with a censure of this miscarriage of justice...
...York was not the only state with a law designed to bar subversive teachers from public schools, but it had one of the newest and toughest. The Feinberg law (TIME, April 11) empowered schools to dismiss teachers because of membership in any organization that the state Board of Regents had listed as "subversive." When the legislature passed the act last spring, cries of alarm rose from civic groups and teachers' unions as well as from the Communists who were its main target...
...decrees he also: 1) indefinitely suspended Congress (which has a Liberal majority); 2) took away the power of the supreme court's Liberal majority to nullify any of his acts; 3) imposed censorship on press, radio and cables; 4) banned meetings and demonstrations; 5) empowered government officials to dismiss all remaining Liberal employees...
...list was too impressive to dismiss. Next day the Navy's top test pilot appeared to back up Radford's claims. Captain Frederick M. Trapnell, 47, commander of the Naval Air Test Center at Patuxent River, Md., has probably flown more types of planes than any other U.S. pilot. He testified that standard Navy radar had no trouble picking up small jet fighters at 40,000 ft., that Navy fighters had made interceptions at that altitude by day and by night. Said Trapnell: "If you were to ride as an observer...