Word: dismissiveness
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...excitement of the occasion did not blind Britain to the fact that the Prime Minister had flatly rejected the widespread demand that he separate the Defense Ministry from his office. "I am your servant," said he. "You have the right to dismiss me, if you please. What you have no right to do is to ask me to bear responsibility without powers of effective action." And that was that, muddles and mismanagements...
Britons in general fell back on the hope that, even though Winston Churchill might override other men's criticism, he would not dismiss thoughts they might put in his head. But more Britons than ever before would hereafter push to separate Prime Minister Churchill from his Defense portfolio. This week the London Times was only one of a host of voices saying "The position of Minister of Defense is now a full-time...
...Mayor LaGuardia. Reason: he annually cuts the school budget to the bone, has eliminated thousands of jobs. Today there are 2,000 fewer teachers than two years ago; in the budget for the coming year LaGuardia proposes not only to leave vacancies unfilled but for the first time to dismiss some 475 permanent appointees. The Mayor's point: enrollment in the city's schools has dropped nearly 150,000 in the last six years (because of the falling birth rate). The teachers' retort: in the city's schools there are still more than 10,000 unmanageably...
...Italy scheme, it sounds like another example of the Gallipoli at which Colonel Kernan rails so effectively. Unless he has information on the present control of the Mediterranean which is unknown to the layman he would appear to speak unwisely. He may continue to dismiss the value of sea power with the pat chapter title "Mahan Was Wrongl," but until he brings facts rather than sarcasm to bear on the Admiral's theory, control of the sea lanes will still have a certain appeal to warring powers and the Mediterranean will still be a difficult "mare nostrum" in which...
...Short asked Secretary of the Navy Knox and Secretary of War Stimson to let them retire from their country's service. If the President, on the secretaries' recommendation, said yes, each would get a life pension of $6,000 a year. If he decided instead to dismiss them outright, the.y would have to be vindicated by a court-martial before they could claim their retirement pay. Both the Army and the Navy hoped that their request would be granted. Both services felt that the scapegoats had been pelted enough...