Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Indiana's chubby Governor Ralph Fesler Gates, who had helped send Jenner to the Senate two years ago, could easily see through Jenner's strategy. If Jenner were elected governor, he could resign from the Senate, name his successor, and thus get control (along with Senator Homer Capehart) of most of Indiana's state and federal patronage. He let it be known that House Majority Leader Charles Halleck would get first crack at his Senate seat...
Cool Attitude. "The President," wrote Ickes, "said that Woodring had refused to resign [F.D.R. had offered to make him minister to Canada] . . . Then the President told me the astonishing bit of news that Woodring wanted to go as ambassador to the Court of St. James...
...Letter. Later Ickes thought up a more "brilliant idea"-that all Cabinet members should resign because of the war in Europe and leave the President free to replace any of them. Said F.D.R.: "Why, I couldn't do that, Harold. Some of the members of the Cabinet might think that I don't want them...
...sentiment among the U.E.'s rank & file began to rise. Sentner's own Local 1102 began to turn against him, and his right to hold his district office was challenged in the courts. After the Taft-Hartley law was passed, he was asked if he intended to resign and allow the union to comply with the law. "That decision," he replied, "is up to the membership of this union." Last week, Local 1102 made its decision. By a vote of 950-2, Bill Sentner-still hanging on to his district and international offices -was expelled for life from...
...debate, Spaak went to Parliament serenely ready to counterattack. When newspapermen asked him whether he intended to resign, he grinned: "The dead man is still standing up." To the deputies he cried: "Things have changed . . . Today we can shake hands with a Catholic without assuming him to be a supporter of the Inquisition or of Saint Bartholomew's massacre...