Word: dismisses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that it would require thousands and thousands of Federal agents to administer the new law and that the Democrats were feathering their political nest by putting all such extra employes outside the civil service. The bill's friends retorted that this was done to permit the President to dismiss the lot without notice and end operations overnight if his farm experiment proved a failure. Many a member flayed the measure as the worst ever, but announced his support of it on the theory that the Senate would probably revamp...
...with problems of human psychology, concentration in the field must command the serious attention of Freshmen. Its cultural value, while not as patent as that of more esoteric activities, is attested by the fact that many teachers of Economics had their beginnings in other subjects. While one might dismiss as naturally biased the declaration by a leading economist that it is the "greatest cultural study," the fact remains that just as religion was the dominating problem of the Middle Ages, so questions of Economics are paramount today...
...Hill could get some satisfaction out of the fact that the U. S. Supreme Court last week ordered the Federal Court for the Southern District of New York to dismiss without prejudice a stockholder's suit to set aside American Tobacco's employe stock purchase plan, whereby President Hill and his directors got 32,370 shares of common B stock, listed at $112, for $25 a share. But so sharply did Justices Stone and Brandeis criticize the plan that disgruntled stockholders promptly began a new suit in New Jersey...
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...