Word: dismissiveness
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...President Knox. They accused him of permitting French papers in the Saar "to defame and vilify the late President von Hindenburg." Not without foundation, this charge referred to an item in the SaarbrÜcken Volksstimme which closed its report of the Feldmarschall's burial thus: "We will now dismiss von Hindenburg as a representative of soulless barbarism and of the Germany that turned its back upon civilization...
...When] we capture a Parliamentary majority in the next election, we will certainly confer upon the Government the complete power of action which we believe necessary. This is not tyranny because Parliament will be able to dismiss the Government by a vote of censure if it abuses that power...
Most roomers left the building. A few hung grimly on without water, light or service until the Federal Department of Public Health ordered them out last week because of sanitary conditions. Strikers said they would not come back, until Secretary Carranza and Stewardess Uranga had been dismissed. Before they would dismiss secretary and stewardess, replied the Board of Trustees, they would put the Mexico City Association and its Chihuahua branch into voluntary bankruptcy, send the Y. M. C. A. out of Mexico for good. Up from 3,400 Christian young men who had paid their dues...
...stickler for old-fashioned British Justice is Mr. Justice William Carlos Ives. Though unable to reverse the jury verdict convicting Premier Brownlee as an enticer and seducer, Justice Ives proceeded last week to dismiss the jury awards of $10,000 damages to Miss MacMillan and $5,000 to her father, a locomotive engineer for Canadian National Railways...
...model Constitution, effective April 1, all power will "emanate from God the Almighty." The Head of State will be advised by four councils (political, ecclesiastical & educational, commercial, provincial). He, his Chancellor and Cabinet will initiate all legislation, allow or refuse plebiscites, change the Constitution at will; and he may dismiss his Chancellor and Cabinet at will. A Federal Chamber made up of members of the four councils will accept or reject his laws, without comment. The Head of State will control all universities and schools, newspapers, theatres and broadcasting stations. He will maintain the Catholic Church as the privileged...