Word: dismissed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dismiss 1,700 employees of the Wage Stabilization Committee, and eventually abolish the jobs of 6,000 other controllers...
Last week Dean Acheson flatly refused to dismiss Career Diplomat John Carter Vincent, the Old China Hand whose loyalty has been found in "reasonable doubt" by the President's Loyalty Review Board (TIME, Dec. 29). In a long memo to Harry Truman, the Secretary of State argued that he could not fire Vincent, as the LRB recommended, until he had "further guidance...
Under the new section, the Council shall have the right to appoint and dismiss any member of the Charities Committee. The chairman of the committee is required to submit a report three weeks before the drive, stating exactly how the drive will be conducted...
...turn of the century, Paul Claudel and André Gide were beginning literary careers, Claudel as poet-playwright, Gide as novelist. In temperament and opinion, they were opposites: Claudel a zealous Roman Catholic, Gide a tormented doubter who could neither accept nor dismiss the Christian faith. The two men became cautious friends, and in 1899 began a correspondence which sputtered and stormed until 1926. Their letters, now published in English for the first time, give a fascinating picture of two first-rate minds locked in a long quarrel about ultimate realities...
...self-respecting Democrat, including Harry Truman, can lightly dismiss the disclosure that a department of the Government can't account for a mere $81 million being the inevitable from time to time in life, astounds me ... This is the kind of news that should make banner headlines. Unfortunately, it never does. Orchids to TIME for outstanding public service...