Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week John Bracken, national leader of the Tory Party which had walloped McNaughton at Grey North, raked the General from a new angle. He said that he had expected Defense Minister McNaughton to resign right after Grey North voted. In a 550-word statement, John Bracken said, in sum, that Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King should "replace the Defense Minister immediately...
...been made commander in chief of the eastern front in anticipation of the Russian blow. Guderian must have realized that at best he could hope only to delay such a tide of power as Zhukov could unloose. The Russians heard reports that Guderian had threatened to resign unless he was permitted to withdraw westward to a line he believed would stop Zhukov: from Danzig through Poznań to Breslau...
South Africa's Prime Minister had a tough fight on his hands. To a convention of his United Party in Bloemfontein, Field Marshal Jan Christian Smuts denounced the Broederbond (League of Brothers) as a "dangerous, cunning, Fascist organization." Smuts ordered South African civil servants and state schoolteachers to resign Broederbond membership at once. His stern alternative: resign their Government jobs...
...sacked only two others (he normally sheds unwanted officials by reshuffling their duties to others). FTCommissioner William E. Humphrey, fired in 1933, insisted until his death several months later that he was still an FTCommissioner. In 1938, TVA Chairman Dr. Arthur E. Morgan, having resisted numerous pointed invitations to resign, was fired with "regret...
...doubted that many members would resign, like President Hutchins. One facultyman explained: "There isn't any place else to eat around here...