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Last week Bucharest's royal fop played the King more boldly than British George V (who despises him) would ever dare to do. In brief the Cabinet of peasant-born Premier Juliu Maniu "advised" His Majesty to dismiss from their jobs two of his special favorites, Col. Marinescu, Chief of Bucharest Police, and General Dumitrescu, Chief of Rumania's Gendarmerie. Instead of taking his Cabinet's advice, as George V would be bound to do, Carol II took his stand on Rumania's old-fashioned Constitution which gives the King broad powers, defied Premier Maniu...
...Telegram had moved to dismiss the case but wanted the court to reserve decision long enough for Telegram witnesses to refute some of the State's horrid testimony. The court ignored the request, dismissed without ado. Next day Editor Felix Bruner told Telegram readers-and all 25 Scripps-Howard newspapers reprinted-what the defense would have said if it had the chance: C. That prosecution's witnesses were disgruntled employes discharged by Scripps-Howard...
...year to Madison, Wis., to find Harris with baggage and Mrs. Clark,. Harris agreed to pay $200,000 in trust for Clark's two children, $500 a month for life to Clark. A month later Mrs. Clark divorced him in Reno, six months later the payments stopped. Moving to dismiss the action, Banker Harris' attorney said: "Shocking and revolting . . . against public policy and corrupt and void...
...layman, conducted himself in such a way as to increase influences which the authorities considered undesirable from the point of view of the general welfare of the college, of the city, and of society as a whole, then they had a perfect right to dismiss...
Although almost all of the pictures depicting the Sacco-Vanzetti affair merge on caricature, there is more of art than mere clever distortion in these gouaches. When the exhibit appeared at the Downtown Gallery in New York City, many were inclined to dismiss the whole of Shahn's work as comic-strip treatment of more serious topics, yet even the poignancy that speaks from each picture is testimony that there is something more permanent than grim humor here...