Word: dismissiveness
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...hill to the city's southwest. Moreover, Danzig itself started a local Nazi Heimwehr of some 10,000 men. Authentic reports had it that boatloads of artillery and anti-aircraft had arrived by German ships. In the Danzig shipyards German employers were ordered by the political leaders to dismiss Polish workers. Out beyond on the fortified Hel Peninsula, which is Polish, antiaircraft guns took a shot at a German plane after giving it a warning salvo...
...Naval Ministry scoffed at suggestions that the loss of the Phenix was something more than an accident. French newspapers were not prepared to dismiss the possibility of sabotage so lightly, asked: "Can this be the law of averages-that three democracies lose three submarines in less than a month?" Editorialized the Communist newspaper L'Humanite: "This commands suspicion...
...more interested in his unstressed evidence of Jane Carlyle's frustrations: her nervous headaches and insomnia, her refusal to write (although her good friend Dickens said she could outdo George Eliot), her declaration that "One writer is quite enough in a house." Nor can the reader so lightly dismiss as a weak-moment confession her confidential opinion that marriage is "extremely disagreeable...
Last week New York City's Board of Education prepared to dismiss 6,819 teachers, shut night schools, pare many another expense. Reason: Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia had cut the board's budget $3,000,000, and the State Legislature had cut another $5,300,000. As parents and teachers indignantly protested against "wrecking" of their school system, Manhattan's Borough President Stanley M. Isaacs dramatically demanded that the city's top school officials take a voluntary salary reduction of 5% to 10%, as had other city officials, including Mayor LaGuardia ($22,500), Park Commissioner Robert...
Meanwhile in Detroit, Homer Martin, head of U. A. W.'s seceding minority, was unable to meet his headquarters payroll until five days after it was due, had to dismiss 35 organizers. Strained by advance disclosure that he was planning to take his faction into A. F. of L., Mr. Martin's nerves snapped when Detroit Timesman Harry Taylor commented caustically upon the sad state of Mr. Martin's affairs. Homer Martin flared up, fisticuffed for five minutes...