Word: dismissing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...average athlete's ambition, what effect would the abolition of probation have? In the absence of any other check there is every reason to suppose that the same athlete would allow himself to slip even lower than the standard established by probation. If it were proposed to dismiss him, still there must be some criterion on which to judge and he must in all fairness be warned. Probation requirements, subject to the elastic judgment of the authorities, supply the criterion and probation itself constitutes the warning. There may be a more successful method of accomplishing this end, but if there...
Since Senator Borah is undoubtedly a power, indeed one of the most potent powers that got President Hoover elected, something had to be done and done quickly. So Attorney-General Mitchell issued orders to each & every district attorney, forbidding them to dismiss any liquor cases on court dockets without explicit permission from the Department of Justice...