Word: relinquish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After 23 years in Congress, South Carolina's tall, grey-thatched James Prioleau Richards, 61, looks longingly towards the end of the year, when he will relinquish his House seat, go back to his 500-acre cattle farm at Heath Springs (pop. 700), there "lie down on my back and look up at the moon and wonder what's up there." Last week, while the State Department gasped and the Defense Department groaned, Dick Richards decided the Administration was reaching for that same moon and asking too many sixpence in foreign aid next year...
When Walter George entered the U.S. Senate he took the seat that had been occupied by a Southern demagogue of the old school, Thomas E. Watson. When George steps out, he almost certainly will relinquish that seat to a new kind of Southern partisan. Viewing the prospect, nearly every member of the U.S. Senate agreed last week with the Baltimore Evening Sun: "Few men could step into Senator George's shoes; Mr. Talmadge couldn't even shine them...
...Thurmond kept his promise, sent a letter of resignation to Governor George Bell Timmerman. At the same time he announced that he would be a candidate to succeed himself. Last week Timmerman appointed Greenville Attorney Thomas A. Wofford, 47, to Thurmond's Senate seat, which Wofford promised to relinquish in November. His probable successor: Thurmond...
...original conflict-of-interests statute, enacted in 1917, has been enforced sometimes, disregarded at other times, depending on the political climate. In 1949 the Senate refused to confirm Carl Ilgenfritz to the $14,800-a-year post of Munitions Board chairman on the ground that Ilgenfritz refused to relinquish his regular $70,000-a-year salary as a vice president of U.S. Steel...
...heart the task of expediting the flow of immigrants and even showed mild shock at the fact that only 15,000 of a scheduled 209,000 refugees had received their visas in two years. He went so far as to suggest that State Department security chief Scott McLeod relinquish control of the refugee program, despite McLeod's enthusiastic administration of the Refugee Relief Act's security provisions. Worst of all, Corsi attacked the McCarran-Walter Immigration Act. As Secretary Dulles well knows, Representative Walter is a formidable figure in Washington. After a slow start he is fast replacing the late...