Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...coveted prize for an evening of bridge was a prune or a piece of hard candy. . . . Many acrimonious debates took place. . . . The kitchen staff . . . threatened to resign because of criticism by some prisoners who had found fish and slightly moldy bread in the garbage can. The cooks said the fish was tainted and the bread too moldy. Their accusers said the fish had been retrieved to yield 19 excellent filets and the bread turned into a tasty dish of bread crumbs...
...first U.S. armed forces that made actual contact with the Germans on land. Long (18 years) a reserve officer, energetic Henry Cabot Lodge has a peacetime history of preparedness. Under a directive issued by the President, Major Lodge-and all other legislators in the armed forces-had to resign either from active duty or from their Congressional posts. Last week Senator Lodge, up for reelection, made the Secretary's letter public. Next day Henry Stimson hurriedly told his press conference that no politics were involved...
...chief U.S. proponent of Puerto Rican home rule has been curly-haired, idealistic Governor Tugwell, onetime Brain Truster. Last week, as reports circulated that he would resign before home rule arrives to give way to a President-appointed native chief executive, Reformer Tugwell was in Washington pleading for more food for the 1,869,245 Puerto Ricans. Despite the temporary boom caused by military expansion, the island is still desperately poor. Many of its children are underfed, much of its population (31.1%) is illiterate. The wages of the jibaros who work the sugar plantations are woefully low. Both...
...billion loan instead of Lend-Lease. Then he voted for Lend-Lease, then to retain the neutrality act, then to declare war, thus taking all sides. Now a major in a Fort Benning armored division (he was detached to make a visit to Egypt), Lodge will have to resign from the Army or resign from the Senate-under a Presidential directive that serves to keep Lodge or anyone else from campaigning in absentia or in uniform...
...Ickes huffed & puffed and spread the alarm, but the filling-station pumps were always full. Oil-shortage talk, after fooling nobody, finally subsided. The U.S. told itself once again that there never could be an oil shortage, and thought it would be a good idea for Mr. Ickes to resign...