Word: dismisses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have frequently been made, but never by any one in a position to know as well as the President. . . . Of the faithlessness of which particular friend or friends did President Harding have knowl-edge-Fall, Daugherty, Forbes or Miller? If he had such knowledge, why did he not peremptorily dismiss them...
...more or less than a political conspiracy to overthrow the State government and seize its reins by a few ambitious men." They insisted no specific wrong-doing was charged against him, no positive evidence adduced to sustain the general charge. When the House finally voted (58-10-41) to dismiss Impeachment Article No. 1, the capitol at Nashville thundered with cheers and applause...
When Chicago elects a Mayor it gets his services quickly. Last week, 43 hours after the last of his 194,257 vote majority over William Hale Thompson had been cast, Anton Joseph ("Tony") Cermak né Chermock was sworn in as Mayor of Chicago. His first act was to dismiss 3,000 non-Civil Service appointees of Thompson and hold up the pay of 3,000 more until he was satisfied "they had performed bona fide service...
...revolves around a small-town girl who, to dismiss one suitor, indicates to him that she is about to become a mother. The rest of the action involves phrases and situations which do not exactly become a mother, but are at times quite amusing. In the end it turns out that it was all in fun and that no one is to become a father...
...industry. Chief target of attack by insurgent Senators on the old Power Commission has been Frank C. Bonner, its executive secretary. He was accused of "inefficiency," of favoring license-seeking private power companies. Last week Montana's Senator Wheeler unsuccessfully tried to get the new commissioners to promise to dismiss Secretary Bonner. Stung by what he called these "slanderous statements" and "unwarranted attacks," Secretary Bonner informed the Senate Committee that he would request a civil service transfer to another governmental bureau. The insurgent Senators cheerfully sped...