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...dollar to spare just now, the mailman will plunk his ticket on the nearest flat surface with the promise to come back for the dollar later. Some, perhaps, with iron wills and few correspondents are able to think of the postal solicitors as annual nuisances, whom they can dismiss with a series of flat, firm "no's." Many more, defeated by timidity and high-pressure salesmanship, surrender their dollars...
...York Timesman Arthur Krock subsequently reported that in this talk the Attorney General had conducted a running argument with the President. Its gist: since Truman and McGrath were agreed on holding up the Morris questionnaire and the need to dismiss Morris, it ought to be recorded in announcements by both the White House and the Justice Department. The President, said Krock, moved away from the argument. Later, McGrath and Short kicked it around some more; the presidential aide thought that both Morris and McGrath ought to go. The Attorney General protested that this would make him a "goat...
...should start about ten o'clock and last about an hour, Lawrence D. Shubow '43, attorney for Dirk Jan Struik, assured me Wednesday night when asked what time the motion to dismiss the indictment against the suspended M.I.T. professor would come up in Middlesex county-Superior Court, Criminal Session...
BRITISH royalty reigns but does not govern. According to a famed British constitutional scholar, Walter Bagehot, Queen Elizabeth II "could disband the army; she could dismiss all the officers . . .she could sell off all our ships-of-war and all our naval stores; she could make a peace by the sacrifice of Cornwall and begin a war for the conquest of Brittany. She could make every citizen in the United Kingdom, male or female, a peer; she could make every parish in the United Kingdom a 'University'; she could dismiss most of the civil servants, and she could...
...calls a party leader to form a government, but the person she designates must command a majority in the House of Commons. (George III was the last monarch to summon and dismiss ministries at will.) Elizabeth's power to grant or refuse a dissolution of Parliament is real enough, but she would use it independently only in extraordinary circumstances-e.g., if death or strife hopelessly entangled the wheels of party government...