Word: dismisses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee to undergo a grilling. One prime question to be asked each appointee: Did he favor retaining Frank E. Bonner as executive secretary of the Commission? Secretary Bonner was accused of favoring private power companies by radical Senators who wanted the new Commission to dismiss him at once. What made Secretary Bonner persona non grata to this senatorial group was exemplified by him last week in a Manhattan speech to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. There he declared that the Federal Government should "confine itself to a minimum of interference" with the water power...
...injuries. These four rules which are regarded as fundamental and highly important by the coaches prohibit, during season, smoking, alcoholic liquor, late hours of retiring, and the fourth requires at least twenty minutes rest before noon and evening meals. Infraction of even one of these requirements is sufficient to dismiss a player from the table. A minimum of nine hours sleep is exacted of every man in training...
...took his seat there. As Governor he controls the State by the power of patronage, with his appointees removable at his will. If he leaves Louisiana for Washington, before the end of his gubernatorial term in 1932, Lieut. Governor Paul Cyr, his bitter enemy, will exercise executive authority to dismiss all Long appointees, to crumple the Long political machine into oblivion...
...resulting opus is almost always full of old and obvious data mingled with much misleading and impertinent material. Even, if by some freak of good fortune, the academic mind should produce a sane work on some subject like article writing, the successful contributor to magazines can be heard to dismiss it with "I don't like it, even if it is good...
...Monaco, France, where he became a member of the Society of Jesus. In 1878 he entered Woodstock College, Maryland, and shortly thereafter was called to teach at what was then Santa Clara College. Almost immediately he began to study the heavens; those aspects of the universe which many dismiss as "physical" he easily conceived to be other forms of "spiritual" evidence...