Word: dismissiveness
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...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...
...During this time she was trying to dismiss the nurse that I engaged for her right after birth. I told her that little Gloria loved the nurse and would cry if she were discharged. My daughter said to me: I don't care if she cries and for all I care, she can bawl until her eyes bulge and drop out of their sockets...
Last week, in throwing out the municipal motion to dismiss the Missouri Public Service suit, U. S. District Judge Albert L. Reeves declared: "It must be ruled that the Administrator of Public Works has no Constitutional authority to aid the defendants [i.e. Concordia] in the construction of the project. And if it were intended by Congress to promote that character of construction work under the Industrial Recovery Act, then such purpose impinges upon Constitutional inhibitions and is invalid...
...According to Chief Rogers, Captain Willmott, who died the evening before the disaster, had called Alagna "an agita tor and a vengeful person," had ordered Rogers to dismiss Alagna at the end of the voyage. When U. S. Attorney Martin Conboy who was conducting a Grand Jury investigation of his own, heard this, Radioman Alagna, already held as a mate rial witness, had his bail raised. It took two days to get the story straight: The extent of Alagna's agitation was to strike for better pay once just before sailing time. The extent of his "revenge...