Word: dismissing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Widow Green's lawyers, headed by one-time U. S. Senator George Wharton Pepper of Pennsylvania, objected to the probate on general grounds that the 1908 document was not a last will & testament. Sister Hetty's counsel moved to dismiss the objections, alleging Mrs. Green was no interested party in the probate because of a prenuptial agreement in which she waived dower rights for $1,500 per month for life...
...would call a general strike. He said the union would secure the recall of Mayor Frank Couzens (son of the late Senator James Couzens). Mayor Couzens yielded, got the union to defer the mass meeting till 5:45, advised firms in the office buildings on Cadillac Square to dismiss their workers early. Save for groups of strikers trooping to their rendezvous, the heart of Detroit was almost deserted at rush hour...
...Well, that is very frank-now I understand it!" gasped Sir Boyd Merriman, President of the Court, and instead of refusing to dismiss the intervention he promptly dismissed...
...conflict raging between Wisconsin's Glenn Frank and his political and educational antagonists has exceeded the bounds of ordinary removal proceedings. Unquestionably in the minds of the people as well as the students and teachers, President Frank's imminent dismissal was actuated by partisan prejudice, for the majority composed only of La Follette appointees, voted to dismiss President Frank. It is, of course, true that a Board of Regents, in continuous association and supervision of a university and its president, must have the power of dismissal, but the motives in this instance were open to question...
...Wisconsin destroys what favorable connotations the label "progressive" may still have in the minds of balanced thinkers. Fragmentary reports indicate the resemblance of this clash to some of Governor Curley's ridiculous excesses on Beacon Hill. Dominated by LaFollette appointees, the Board of Regents has been summoned to dismiss President Frank. The Governor and his adherents, it is said are worried about radicalism at the University. A five man investigating committee has suggested that Frank drive from the campus all "individuals and societies" of a radical tinge. The President preferred to stick to the ideals of academic freedom...