Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After seven years in the War Department, the last 22 months as efficient, plodding, meticulous Secretary of War, Robert P. Patterson last week handed in his resignation. Ever since the war ended, he had wanted to return to his private law practice in Manhattan. He nursed the hope that he might be appointed to fill the next Supreme Court vacancy. His cue to resign, said Bob Patterson, was Congress' all-but-final action last week on the merger bill which he had helped put through. The bill, passed by the House, went to a Senate-House conference this week...
When Republican extremists forced moderate Premier Sjahrir to resign last month because of his willingness to cooperate with the Dutch, a break seemed certain. But his successor was another moderate, Amir Sjarifoedden, who has long worked with the Dutch. When he thought he was dying in a Japanese prison camp during the war, Sjarifoedden left a message for his old friend Van Mook, asking him to take care of his wife & children. After the Dutch attack this week, Sjarifoedden was less sure of his friends. "I accuse the Dutch," he said over the radio, "of trying to recolonialize...
...strangle trade between them. The French will have to put enough faith in the Allied control of Germany to let the German steel industry work for Europe at a higher production level. This will be even more difficult for a Frenchman than for a citizen of New Hampshire to resign himself to seeing another $15 billion go out of the U.S. But unless both France and New Hampshire face the facts, the "Marshall approach" will not work...
...have no desire whatever to interfere in your political opinions, but obviously, if you have no faith whatever in the principles for which the Yorkshire Post stands, your duty is to resign. . . . You must consult your conscience...
...Community." Last week, when the news of the N.E.A. blacklisting hit North College Hill, the school board called a meeting. All five members decided to resign-"for the good of the community." Probate Judge Chase M. Davies took over as a one-man board until a new election could be held. His first step: to reappoint Superintendent Cook for another three years...