Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First stop was Radio Station WCAO, for a broadcast with his hosts. A woman member asked point-blank about rumors that he was going to resign. Leon Henderson grinned. "Well, that's the way things go," he said. In walked a newsman, with word that the resignation had just been announced in Washington. "There you have it," said Henderson, grinning again...
Last week it appeared that Ed Flynn, who has long wanted to resign, would be eased into an ambassadorship (perhaps to Ecuador) and that Franklin Roosevelt had decided on quiet, balding Postmaster General Frank Comerford Walker to head the national committee. Franklin Roosevelt's decision would have to be formulated into a command, for neither Frank Walker nor any other Democrat wanted the job. (A Washington story had it that two men, both previously mentioned for the position, had agreed between themselves that each would attempt to persuade Franklin Roosevelt from asking the other to assume the chairmanship...
...George Greene, a guy of guts, the Leader-News owes all its success. He thinks nothing of calling up a state official in the middle of the night and asking him to resign. Once he spent $400 of his own money to finance an audit of Dodge County books. Result: several county officials indicted for embezzlement, $32,000 saved for the county's taxpayers...
...Montgomery Ward's rugged individualist president, Sewell Lee Avery, "maintenance of membership" (which provides that union members must resign from a union within 15 days, or remain members for the duration of a contract) is just the closed shop in sheep's clothing; nor does Mr. Avery see why the "deal" between WLB and the unions should necessarily be regarded as the law of the land...
...Argentine Government was careful to describe the situation as an "episode," rather than an "incident." This week mass meetings in various cities indicated that Chileans were choosing sides and Santiago's evening tabloid, Ultimas Notidas, went so far as to say the government might decide to resign. Various Good Neighbors had already come to Sumner Welles's support. Brazil, Venezuela and Colombia were all reported working for Chilean-U.S. understanding. President Roosevelt sent a message to President Rios hoping that his visit was "merely postponed for a short time." President Ríos thanked President Roosevelt...