Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Best guess was that Homer Bone would not resign from the Senate until after the November election, thus preventing Republican Governor Arthur Langlie from appointing an interim G.O.P. Senator. But with the hottest Democratic vote getter out, Washington GOPsters were hopeful. Best Republican bet: Eric Johnston, 47, of Spokane, the forceful president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce...
Stiffly, William Green left the White House. Dutifully, he polled his Executive Committee, wrote to the President with "deep regret" that his A.F. of L. would either: 1) continue to be U.S. labor's sole and exclusive spokesman, or 2) resign from I.L.O...
After six days of consulting his family, and of sawing wood and saying little, Governor Leverett Saltonstall reported his decision to Massachusetts. He will not resign and have himself appointed to fill the U.S. Senate seat of Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., now on duty as a U.S. Army major. Instead the lean, salty Governor will finish out his present job and run for the Senate in November. The Bay State applauded his decision. To keep the Senate seat warm for eleven and a half months, Governor Saltonstall then appointed his friend, Harvard classmate ('14) and townsman (Newton), balding, genial...
...Houston, the Episcopal Diocese of Texas set aside $10,000 to help chaplains who return to that diocese when the war ends. The eleven Texas parsons now serving had to resign their parishes because replacements would not accept parishes on a "duration" basis. Said Bishop Clinton Simon Quin: "We are going to take care of every returning rector. We will get them a job within the Diocese. Maybe it will be a church with but 15 or 20 members, where pay is small. The fund set aside will be used to make up the difference in that...
When Norway's Government in Exile declared straight out last year that it would resign the minute Norway was free, and let the people choose new leaders, it set a stiff standard of conduct for homeless governments. Last week a distinguished Norwegian in Exile, Carl J. Hambro, president of Norway's Parliament, added another page to his country's wartime record of realism. Said Hambro...