Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME, June 9). But "Judge" Healy's candidate for chairman was ex-businessman Sumner T. Pike, his sole Republican colleague. A chairman picked on a strict seniority basis would have been Healy himself. But the Judge would always be more effective as an outsider-storming, needling, threatening to resign. Evidently Mr. Roosevelt hoped he would stay on in that effective role, to storm, threaten and relent many times again
...Office of Civilian Defense cannot, in fairness to the nation, be left in such hands." Smacked the Mirror: "The Mayor . . . frenziedly advising people to 'be calm,' draws more raucous laughs than Abbott and Costello." Smacked the World-Telegram: "If the Mayor would only cool down, resign his national defense job and devote himself to his full-time duties in City Hall, he would be surprised, we think, by resultant public approval-and calm...
...Texas, Stockholm, and the Mcole Polytechnique at Paris. The course in this school is of three months duration and involves 86 hours a week of class-room time. It is tuition-free, but under existing regulations can be taken only by college graduates or by students who first resign from college. Men who successfully complete the work are technically qualified to apply for commission in the Army or the Navy. At the present time commissions are given only to men who are at least 21 years old and have some kind of college degree. Modification of this rule...
...under the jurisdiction of the War Department, said Mr. Lippmann. "The facts of the situation, and the morale of the people require lucid and authoritative commands." Mrs. Roosevelt should stop confusing everyone by being a minor official in her husband's Government. Mr. LaGuardia "should resign as soon as his successor can be found and installed in the office." Indications were that Mr. Roosevelt thought so too, was getting ready to pluck the Little Flower from...
Forced by the threat of three of its own Ministers to resign from the Cabinet (Minister of Labor Ernest Bevin, Home Secretary Herbert Morrison, Lord Privy Seal Clement Attlee), Labor cooled off. The wealth conscription amendment was rejected...