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Word: resignations (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Getting a "climate of opinion favorable to progressive candidates in the coming crucial elections" will rank a chief emphasis during his tenure according to a statement from Rice last night. In order to devote full time to his duties Rice said he would resign a post he now holds on the Graduate Advisory Council as well as the executive secretaryship of the University AVC chapter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Graduate Cops State A.V.C. Chairmanship in Tight Race | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

...electorate returned only five of the nine C.C.A. candidates to office and the City Council will limp along on a scant five-to-four majority for two more years. Until the liberal elements in Cambridge can pile up a record imposing enough to knife through class bigotry, they must resign themselves to a never ending battle with those politicians intent on turning the city government into a money tree...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mark of Greatness | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

Soon after 7 there were 5,000 people at the Etoile. The crowd was singing the Internationale and yelling "Hang De Gaulle!" "Ramadier must resign!" and "The police are with us"-the last being a Communist illusion which was soon to be rudely shattered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: So Little Time | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

Communists demanded her resignation as mayor, besieged her home, picketed the town hall. One day an agile comrade; threw a right hook past a policeman's shoulder to Renée's Grecian nose, altering its shape somewhat. Her sponsors whisked her to a refuge. But she would not resign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Madame Is Elected | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

Weekend football extra headlines proclaiming that Richard C. Harlow had fielded his last team in the Allston Horseshoe and was about to resign were completely discredited by the coach himself the following night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harlow Quashes Press Report He Will Resign Post | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

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