Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Behind Bars. Gaunt, hot-tempered, intellectual, he came to be regarded as the leader of the more cautious elements in the Congress, but after Pearl Harbor, C. R. decided that non-violence was no safeguard in such a violent world. With masterly tact he persuaded Gandhi not only to resign from leadership of the Congress, but to give his blessing to Nehru and the rest...
Then Quisling said the pastors could resign-but only if they first got permission from his Church Ministry. None...
Blond, burly young Governor Harold Edward Stassen tossed a time bomb into Minnesota politics last week. If re-elected in November, he said, he would serve through the legislative session, then resign in April 1943 to serve as a lieutenant commander in the Navy...
...more concern to Winchell than Cissie Patterson's prayers were similar remarks made in Congress. House Naval Affairs Committeeman Melvin Maas declared that "Winchell should be assigned to duty at Samoa or permitted to resign." Naval Affairs Committee Chairman Carl Vinson asserted: "I can tell you right now that I have advised the Navy Department either to call him [Winchell] into active service or to disenroll...
Carl F. Zeidler, tousle-haired, 34-year-old singing "boy mayor" of Milwaukee, "the Personality Kid" who beat Daniel Hoan, Milwaukee's mayor for 24 years, in 1940, enlisted in the U.S. Naval Reserve, announced that he would resign his $12,300-a-year office as soon as he was called to active duty. "What does my life matter when the life of my country is at stake?" cried he. A Naval official said Zeidler would be made a lieutenant, junior grade, or full lieutenant, probably assigned to recruiting or promotion...