Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hearing room of the Capitol, Tennessee's ancient and irascible Senator Kenneth McKellar faced ECA Administrator Paul Hoffman, who had been reported by the morning papers as saying he would resign if the Senate cut any more of the $3.5 billion which the House had allotted ECA for 1950. Said McKellar, chairman of the Appropriations Committee: "Other than giving away other people's money, I wonder what you are doing in Europe ... I think it would be the best thing for the people of the U.S. and Europe if you did resign . . . Why you sent a lobbyist...
George W. Adams, director of the Summer School and Secretary of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, will resign his University posts in august to take over the position of dean of Colorado College...
Daniel G. Mulvihill, 66, president of the Harvard University Employees Representative Association, will resign his post as watchman and proctor at the Law School to guide the Association on a salaried basis...
...getting hell. Iowa's Senator Bourke Hickenlooper, who was among Lilienthal's defenders in the row over his appointment two years ago and apparently became one of Lilienthal's best friends on the Hill, had charged him with "incredible mismanagement" and demanded that he resign...
...owned. Van Zandt implied that there was some kind of skulduggery behind the Air Force's decision to concentrate on the B-36. He also implied that there was a plot afoot by Consolidated to absorb its unsuccessful competitors (for airplane contracts) and that, after that, Symington would resign to become boss of the great combine. Symington ridiculed the charge. Said...