Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the California meeting ends, Frank Russell will resign his directorships, open an office in Washington. Already he had been offered more than one Government job. Always before his good friends in the Government-Robert A. Lovett, Assistant Secretary of War for Air, Artemus L. Gates of the Navy, and Ted Wright of WPB-have advised him to stay away from Washington, to keep close to the production line. This time they gave him the green light. His job: to help cut red tape between Government and the aircraft industry as effectively as individual companies have learned to break bottlenecks...
...ferment. In an effort to placate the liberal element formerly represented by Kanellopoulos alone, four old ministers had been replaced by four new ones. Greek Army Fascists had been tossed out of the high command of Free Greek battalions in Egypt and Syria. The Government has promised to resign when Greece is liberated, and weak-willed King George has likewise promised to "conform to the will of the people...
Cadet Martlia K. worthy has been named to the editorship of QM. newly established publication of the Harvard Quartermaster unit. He succeeds Cadet Milbank Pilsbury who has been forced to resign by reason of his membership in the Enlisted Reserve Corps which is to be activated on April...
...appears in TIME itself. When TIME'S Managing Editor says that all he knows is what he reads in TIME, he is not being wary or bashful or humorous-he is merely stating a fact. But most people are so accustomed to the idea that the press must resign itself to silence unless it can pin its statements on someone else that they find it hard to believe that our editors are not gold mines of unprinted truth...
...whom its 135 year tradition would not exist. He was an individualist named Henry Gassett of the class of 1834, and he played the flute. When, in 1832, complaints about the Sodality's night music led to an official request for its disbandment, Henry Gassett refused to resign. He held meetings with himself in the chair, paid himself dues regularly, played his flute in solitude. Finally he persuaded another flautist to join in duets. Gradually they elected other members. The Sodality played...