Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...greatest fun on earth, and that anyone who isn't a Democrat is incurably benighted. Last week Democrats, casting about for a new national chairman to replace Postmaster General Frank Walker, thought that in Bob Hannegan they had found a second Farley. This week Bob Hannegan will resign as U.S. Commissioner of Internal Revenue (a job he has held only three months) to take over direction of the Fourth Term drive...
Premier Mikolajczyk's more passionately nationalistic colleagues had opposed this much of a concession. President Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz, a stanch Pilsudski man in his time, noticeably did not attend the conferences, reportedly threatened to resign rather than propitiate Moscow. Die hard General Kazimierz Sosnkowski, commander of all Polish forces, almost certainly threw the weight of the officer caste against conciliation. Many a Polish officer hails from the eastern provinces, thus has a personal reason for standing firm against Moscow...
...Washington Times-Herald reported that sympathetic friends were "bleeding for McNutt." But Paul McNutt kept silence; did not resign...
...town. The men were King Vittorio Emanuele, who is 74 and has ruled for 43 years, and Marshal Pietro Badoglio, who is 72 and has been his King's most obedient follower. The question they met to discuss was whether the King should abdicate, or the Marshal should resign as the head of what passes currently for the Italian Government...
...week's end the Administration was ready to concede defeat. First sign of collapse: the Treasury's Tax Expert Randolph Evernghim Paul prepared to resign at the first graceful opportunity; and failing that, just to resign...