Word: dismissing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...GIVE US GRUBB. Now 72, slight, wiry and a Democrat, Judge Grubb runs his courtroom smartly, shames attorneys who waste his time. Born & bred in Cincinnati, he went to Yale with a brother of President Taft. His opinion last week was handed down in denying a TVA motion to dismiss an injunction petition filed by a group of Alabama Power Co. stockholders who are trying to block the sale of $2,200,000 of property...
Apparently to forestall an appeal, Justice Carew neither sustained nor dismissed the writ of habeas corpus by which Mrs. Vanderbilt sought to get her daughter back from Mrs. Whitney. Instead he made Gloria a ward of the Supreme Court of New York, appointed Mrs. Whitney her custodian as the Court's representative. He ordered Mrs. Whitney to continue the child's schooling, maintain her "in a manner suitable to her fortune" ($2,800,000), provide a Roman Catholic governess who would instruct her in her mother's faith.* Gloria should never be taken out of New York...
...started in business with 3,000 borrowed dollars, eventually ruled a $100,000,000 empire that included banks, power, telephones, railroads. Unable to refund a bond issue in 1931, tall, tough President Backus lost control. Last January he fiercely started a comeback in the form of a suit to dismiss his receivers for mismanagement (TIME...
...accordance with the facts, however, to dismiss summarily the attitude underlying the contest, and to pass over it without some comment. Unfortunately there still exists among some of the die-hard alumni of both institutions an antagonistic feeling toward the other University. This attitude may or may not be in evidence during the game, but it can be counter-acted if Princeton undergraduates act as gentlemen after the final whistle, no matter which team wins...
...strikers throughout the nation did not draw attention to this latest dispute over recognition of famous section 7a of the NRA. Cleveland union leaders have insisted that the A and P has consistently violated the provision of the Code which provides that the employer shall not "intimidate, coerce, or dismiss employees for joining organizations of their own choosing." On the other hand, the A and P insists that there has been at no time a strike among their own employees, that the present crisis was instituted by outside union men and professional agitators, and that they have continually given assurance...