Word: resign
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bidault." On two urgent worries, they agreed on action: ¶ Invited Yugoslavia and Italy to sit down with them to talk over Trieste. They were somewhat disquieted by Tito's threat to march on Trieste if Italian troops moved in, and by Italian PremierPella's threat to resign if they gave any ground to Tito...
...other papers to use in digging up their own stories. The New York Journal-American discovered that Acting Lieutenant Governor Arthur Wicks, along with other prominent officials, had also visited Labor Racketeer Fay in Sing Sing (TIME, Oct. 12). As a result, Dewey asked Wicks to resign. Wicks offered to "let the Senate pass upon my fitness." In its zeal, the J-A was also slightly embarrassed. Among the stockholders of the Yonkers track was the paper's own sports columnist, Lewis Burton, who doubled as the track's publicity man. Burton was promptly dropped...
...biggest and best morning paper. Lacerda dumped canned government propaganda editorials in the wastebasket, regularly broke the ironhanded censorship of Dictator Vargas. "You put me in a difficult position [with the government]," Chateaubriand told Lacerda one day. Snapped back Lacerda: "I put you in an easy one. I resign." Lacerda became a columnist on Rio's Correio da Hanha, and, says he, "we demoralized censorship by ignoring...
...attacking the government, which has formally decreed press freedom, for underhandedly backing a paper, Ultima Hora (TIME, Aug. 17). Lacerda exposed the paper's link with the government, campaigned against it in his paper and on radio and TV until Ultima Bora's editor was forced to resign. (Another result of the battle: circulation of Lacerda's paper jumped fourfold-to 45,000-and he became one of Brazil's most popular radio and TV personalities...
...Persecution and abuse from an anonymous source" have caused Mrs. Helen Maynard to resign from her post as president of the Harvard University Employees Representative Association, she revealed last night...