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...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...
Until he could return, Hatoyama entrusted the Liberal Party to his good friend Yoshida. By the time he was de-purged five years later, Hatoyama had been laid low by a stroke, and tough-minded Shigeru Yoshida had grown too attached to the job to relinquish it. Hatoyama bided his time until the conservatives and their business backers began chafing under Yoshida's leadership, and the public began showing its irritation with the remnants of U.S. occupation and those who cooperated with it. All that was then necessary was a shrewd deal across the game tables. Overnight last fall...
Pressures which forced Georgi Malenkov to relinquish his position as Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party in March 1953 probably caused the Russian prime minister's abrupt resignation, a Russian authority at the University said yesterday...