Word: dismissed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rumania, since Hohenzollern King Carol's youngest sister is the Archduchess Ileana of Habsburg, family ties kept the official press mum. At a meeting of the National Peasant Party, which spends most of its time exhorting King Carol to dismiss his red-headed Jewish mistress, Archduke Otto was introduced last week as a welcome change of subject. Peasant Party orators thundered that the Little Entente will, if necessary, fling its three oversized armies totaling some 635,000 men against Austria or Hungary to repel the Habsburgs...
...powers of a European president whose acts must be countersigned like those of a king by the appropriate minister, but further endowed by Article XIII with what the new Constitution calls "prerogatives," these requiring no countersignature. At his autocratic pleasure he can dissolve the Sejm and Senate and can dismiss the Premier, First President of the Supreme Court, President of the Supreme Chamber of Control, and the Commander-in-Chief and Inspector General of Poland's armed forces by land, sea and air. Moreover the President orders Polish general elections and nominates one of the candidates who may succeed...
Shortly after she broke off with Orlov Catherine struck up the strangest of her partnerships-with Gregory Potemkin, one-eyed, clumsy, moody, brilliant. It was an alliance that soon ceased to be physical (Potemkin chose and dismissed her lovers himself) but remained intimate. Both profited by it; Potemkin to the tune of some 50 million rubles. They lived to see part of their dream come true: Russia mistress of the Baltic and the Black Sea, Russian frontiers pushed far into the west. But there came a day, when Catherine was 62, when she refused to dismiss her current lover...
...which they had been working for five years and had it formally signed. Thus last week gentle President Moscicki, a brilliant scientist but an uncertain politician, found himself with enormous paper powers. He has absolute veto over Parliament, he can take command of the Army and Navy, and dismiss Parliament by decree...
...President, two thirds are elected by a group known as the Elite: males who have won either of two high Polish military decorations. The Elders, in other words, are the Elite who are the old friends of the Cafe Europejska, the Colonels. The President in theory can dismiss them. The Colonels knew that never, never would President Moscicki dream of such a thing, and they alone have the power to force the election of his successor...