Word: dismisses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government buildings. He supplied trucks to take all who wanted to leave 50 miles from the Capitol. When no appreciable number accepted his free transportation offer, he dug in to make the B. E. F. as comfortable as possible. His kindness brought rumors that President Hoover, displeased, might summarily dismiss him on the ground that his activities encouraged more veterans to head for Washington...
Thus for better or for worse Chancellor von Papen will hold supreme directive power during one of the most trying crises faced by the Reich. To dismiss his Cabinet of Monocles as a bad joke became impossible...
...clean air. On the basis of such reports it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that the average American has less self-respect, as a citizen, than men who live under other democratic governments. With these examples of popular complacence before him, Governor Roosevelt might well be tempted to dismiss summarily the petition to remove Walker from office, which he is expected to receive before the Democratic Convention...
...appoint governors-general and governors much as he pleased, but George V has been forced to bow more & more to local sentiment, notably when His Majesty was forced to appoint Sir Isaac Isaacs, "a man he had never seen," to be Governor General of Australia. For a governor to dismiss a premier is unusual but not unprecedented. Two Premiers of Quebec have been dismissed by their Governor...
...Embassy protested to the German Foreign Office. Last week steam from the Berlin teapot reached the U. S. The pet puppy metamor was headlined in the news, vigorously attacked. People who remembered the circumstances of Herr Furtwangler's New York Philharmonic engagement were inclined to dismiss his statement as a case of wounded vanity. His first U. S. concerts (1924-25) were brilliant. But after Toscanini came he let himself be heckled by adverse press criticism, lost his confidence, his force. At the end of his 1926-27 engagement he was not invited to return for the next season...