Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lion Roars. Six weeks ago Columnist Pearson, who likes to rattle closeted skeletons, somehow got into this particular closet. He rattled loudly in his column, printing excerpts from the Phillips letter. Soon hints came from London that Ambassador Phillips would resign for "personal reasons." Delightedly, Columnist Pearson printed a report that the Phillips letter had caused roars of anger up & down Downing Street. Said Pearson: the British had declared Ambassador Phillips persona non grata...
Charles E. Wilson,* the strong man of WPB, went to the White House to resign, as he had twice before in the past nine months. He had a personal reconversion problem of his own: he wanted to get back to the presidency of General Electric. And he was sick & tired of months of WPB haggling and sniping. Once more Franklin Roosevelt begged him to stay on as WPB's executive vice chairman-at least until Germany fell...
Your uncritical quoting of his story that the Navy asked for his resignation because he wanted to preach the gospel implies that all of the chaplains who haven't been asked to resign from the Navy either do not care to preach the gospel or have submitted to Navy censorship...
...with the postponement of elections. The former will be an act of military necessity to facilitate the task of the Allied Supreme Command in every possible way. Popular elections will be held as soon as the Civil Election Registers are recompiled. In the interim, moreover, the entire Cabinet will resign upon arrival in The Netherlands so that any changes, compatible with the public will at the moment, may at once be made...
...World War II's best fighter pilots, Beurling last fortnight asked to resign his commission. The R.C.A.F. approved, explained that this officer "has already done his part in helping...