Word: dismissing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...campaign, the Seattle electorate was hardly more than one enormous jury to be swayed back & forth by courtroom oratory. Besides unhinging his office door, to fulfill his countless campaign pledges Mayor Dore must also cut all city salaries over $3,000, including his own, must dismiss the superintendent of the city-owned street railway system and, like Theodore Roosevelt two generations ago in New York City, must prowl the streets in disguise after dark to see if the police are properly beating their beats...
...free list, is owned by Oklahoma's Governor William Henry Murray, his wife Alice, his cousin Cicero. In answer to the widespread charge that Murraymen capitalize on it; owners' official position to solicit advertising and subscriptions, Governor Murray has announced that he would dismiss any employe so doing. Many a Blue Valley Farmer advertiser reports satisfaction with results...
...papers bewailed the fact that so much money had to be spent on the army of pressmen sent to Hopewell to "satisfy the American craving for news." The kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby few will deny is news in the full sense of the word but few will also dismiss the fact that the tremendous publicity has hindered rather than hastened the return of the child...
Opponents will dismiss the plan as too embryonic, but it is indicative of an attitude toward broadcasts which is shared by most radio listeners. It is only by such projects as this that commercial situations can be forced, by dwindling audiences to effect a much desired change in policy...
...held to their work except through marks. The answer is that students in college who must be kept there by policing had better leave. If a student wants to know how he is getting on, there are plenty of ways of testing him. If the college wants to dismiss a waster, there are plenty of ways of convicting him. Using marks in courses for discipline; promotion, rank lists, prizes, and graduation is simply an administrative convenience which obscures the real business of education--actual individual progress in learning--and centers attention in the wrong place. Harvard Alumni Bulletin...