Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day 70 kids went on strike, parading in front of the school with large posters demanding that the school board resign. Parents begged them to stop. Wispy Miss Inez Wallace, the school principal, stood in the doorway frantically ringing her school bell. The kids ignored both parents and principal. They wrote a letter to the State Board of Education: "We are Americans, and we have some rights...
...employees (who once included rambunctious Frederic [The Hucksters'] Wakeman). After "long and prayerful wrestling" with this problem, Foote said, he decided to sacrifice himself, if necessary. Flying to Chicago for a Sunday meeting with Partners Fairfax Cone and Don Belding, he offered to resign from the firm if his associates decided to keep the account. But Cone and Belding would not hear of it, said Foote, so the account was dropped instead...
After more than 14 years of service to the University, Business Manager Aldrich Durant '02 will leave his post this June. He will resign under the University rule which requires all officers to resign in the month of June following their sixty-sixth birthday...
...Early last month he went to the summer capital, Kuling, with Madame Chiang and a small staff. When he did not return after the first few days, the rumor factories in Shanghai and Nanking got busy: the Gimo had been assassinated; he had gone mad; he was preparing to resign. One other rumor was actually true: the Generalissimo had indeed received additional U.S. technical help-he had just been fitted with a brand-new set of American false teeth...
...already cut their salaries. Republic Steel Corp.'s Charles M. White, who makes $200,000 a year, made no such concession. Said he: "I have no intention of suggesting that my salary be reduced, and, on the contrary, if it were it would be my present thought to resign immediately...