Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...named to the Cabinet. When Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey told the Cabinet that World War I was inevitable, John Burns jumped up and said: "I must resign." From that day to his death last week at 84, John Burns lived in seclusion...
Flynn's opponents were unable to dredge up any wholly damning evidence. His positive qualifications for the job were still open to question, but this week Senate Democrats were ready to confirm him. There was one condition: that he resign his place as New York's male representative on the Democratic Committee. Apparently willing to accede, Ed Flynn coyly waited until he was sure of his diplomatic top hat before giving...
...confidence. In the interest of wartime unity, it might have been prudent for Franklin Roosevelt to fire his old friend. But the President does not work that way. And Henry Morgenthau, whose greatest attributes are loyalty and the personal courage of an unflinchingly honest man, would never resign without word from the White House...
...days before Pearl Harbor, South Dakota's throaty, balding Republican Representative Karl E. Mundt, president of the National Forensic League, made many an oration on behalf of U.S. isolation. Once he urged that Franklin Roosevelt undertake to mediate the war in Europe; once he demanded that Franklin Roosevelt resign...
Nowadays, your conscience is immaterial--your time just comes. So you might as well resign yourself to being crowded into tarp-covered trucks and troop trains, and to forgetting those pet green and yellow ties and oxford shoes...