Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...maneuvers. White-haired, gentle-mannered President Lopez padded sleepily to the door, peered into the barrels of two drawn revolvers, admitted his visitors, learned that he was "under arrest." Another colonel, one Diogenes Gil, had led a successful army revolt, said the visitors. The President had two hours to resign. Soldiers entered, stepped briskly to all the windows and doors and stood with their rifles raised...
...sinner not to leave church without embracing the Lord Jesus and being saved. To Preacher Gatlin the Navy seemed like a field ripe unto the harvest. So he became a Navy chaplain, served nearly eight tumultuous months. By the end of that time, the Navy asked Chaplain Gatlin to resign. He refused, was thereupon relieved from active duty because of "a definitely narrow and sectarian religious view and background . . . a disqualification for effective service-in the Navy's chaplaincy." He is now pastor of the First Baptist Church, Pulaski Tenn...
...Heaven." The Beacon termed the Navy chaplaincy situation "most deplorable," said "it concerns definitely every true Christian in the United States of America." The case of Chaplain Gatlin might be extreme. It was not new. Last year the Navy forced Chaplain Norbett G. Talbott to resign because of scruples about serving beer at entertainments for sailors or giving them talks on venereal disease (TIME...
...things. One, let us resign ourselves to the fact that, for a long time to come, you and we are going to live in two different economic ways. Two, let us visit and trade. Let there be more Soviet businessmen who know the Mississippi Valley. Let there be more American business men who know the valley of the Volga...
...prove that he would be a practicing democrat. After he was elected President in 1934, Ecuador's politicians found him a difficult and somewhat messianic man who talked about despoiling grafters, pushing economic reform, and ridding the world of fascism. With Army help, they forced him to resign after a year in office...