Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then came the political action-mostly internecine. The nub of the controversy was obscure, but suddenly C.C.P.A.C. was split in splinters. Cried Dr. Pope: "All Communists in this organization should resign." Then he pointed a finger: he demanded that Mrs. Brubaker get out for "insubordination." She refused, and Dr. Pope asked the steering committee to censure her. Instead, it dismissed Dr. Pope. Miss Holman resigned in protest, Mrs. Brubaker in the interests of harmony. Then other right-wingers among the left-wingers let it be known that they, too, were much too busy...
...guarded secrecy of a Chiefs-of-Staff strategy conference, the Congress and Moslem League leaders talked with the three-man British Cabinet delegation, trying to work out a compromise for the future government of India. The Viceroy's Executive Council (including its four British members) offered to resign to clear the way for an interim government. Hindu Nehru got the green light to become the next Congress Party president, replacing Moslem Azad, whom Jinnah bitterly regards as a traitor to Islam...
...Attorney General. Murphy got the job. Jackson set his sights on the Supreme Court. Murphy beat him to it. When Jackson finally landed on the Court, they were like two tomcats tossed into the same barrel. Hugo Black is another Jackson-hater. Friends predicted that he would resign if Jackson were appointed Chief Justice...
Last week he "reluctantly" resigned from Hartford's (Episcopalian) Trinity College faculty. Then Trinity's best-known, most-respected professor, now 61, put the finger of blame on handsome young (35) Businessman-President George Keith Funston, one of his ex-students. Shepard charged Funston with refusing to grant him a year's leave for what he described as "acute mental fatigue." Said he: "I am left with these alternatives: to submit to a ruling [reflecting] lack of confidence in my veracity . . . OT to resign...
...year-old college's presidency. His first businesslike step: to try to take academic control from Trinity's faculty committees. Shepard, implicitly questioning Funston's educational know-how, fought the move as "autocratic." When Funston got the chance to force his outspoken star to resign, he took...