Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nonmember neutrals as Sweden, Switzerland and Portugal, such former Axis satellites as Bulgaria and Rumania can come in only when the Security Council recommends their admission and the General Assembly approves. Members may be suspended but not expelled. Withdrawal is neither provided for nor for bidden (any member could resign from the League of Nations...
...Coalition Government until the Japanese war was won (TIME, May 28), Prime Minister Winston Churchill moved decisively. First he canceled the fortnight's holiday he had planned in the south of France. Then, twice in a single day, he drove formally to Buckingham Palace-at noon to resign, four hours later to accept King George VI's invitation to form a new government...
...power, big or small, can "resign" from the new organization, as Germany and Japan resigned from the League. Once in, the only legal way to get out will be by suspension or expulsion...
...Wagner Act. In Covington, Ky., a Kentucky colonel who had taught a high-school class for 17 years was demoted recently to a fourth-grade job largely because of his A.F.T. activities. In Arlington Heights, Ill., 14 of a total of 28 teachers have been fired or asked to resign in the last year for the same reason...
Custodian Nagel, who because of regulations must resign his $159.50 a month janitor's job, considers himself as well qualified for his new post as the next man-perhaps a little better, "because of my long service in the school system. I've worked for the board for 28 years and I know how they do things" (see above). He gets no salary as a board member, so will have to look for a job. Custodian Nagel boasts a diploma, acquired in 1937, from a Chicago school of massage and physiotherapy. In his spare time he has worked...