Word: dismissed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...argument suggested by another portion of Hoover's testimony, that protecting the investigation could not have been Truman's reason since several employees were dismissed on security grounds, seems far-fetched. At best, dismissing a bureaucrat or two alerts the espionage system to a danger to a few suckers on the tip-ends of its tendrils; dismissing White, with or without explanation, would alert the entire apparatus. The Government does not ordinarily dismiss high officers for no apparent reason, and, had Truman followed such a course, no espionage ring worthy of the name could have failed to realize what...
...City College of New York, has had to contend with wild and sweeping accusations from Congressmen and others that U.S. school and college faculties are riddled with Communists. But last week, speaking to the Atlantic City assembly of the United Church Women he cautioned his colleagues not to dismiss every accusation as wild, sweeping and groundless. This, he said, is to use the same "smear" tactics they condemn in their enemies...
Many career employees have been dismissed, but now most of the R.I.F. notices are going to the indefinites. Last week's major cuts: i) the International Information Administration announced it will dismiss 2,000 and abolish 500 jobs in which there are vacancies, 2) the Veterans Administration began discharging 1,000 from its insurance division...
...heart says yes, and the heart wins. Yet, as Author Pérez Galdós does things, this is no commonplace happy ending. It is an end to anguish achieved by a cleansing of guilt on Amparo's part, by the courage on Agustin's to dismiss the sneers of his narrow world. An old story, but Torment shows how good...
...thought that Attorney General Brownell would ease up on antitrust prosecutions are in for a surprise. In five months, Brownell's men have filed 19 new cases, twice as many as the busy Democrats filed in their last five months in office, and the Republicans have yet to dismiss a single one of the 136 cases they inherited. The biggest change: bureau chiefs have at last been put on notice to get quick decisions on all old cases, some of which have been hanging fire for more than ten years...