Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...member of Britain's Parliament may resign or be fired. A member may vacate his seat by becoming Steward or Bailiff of His Majesty's Chiltern Hundreds, may be eased out of the House by being appointed to the post of Steward of the Manor of Northstead. There is no salary attached to these jobs and no work...
...beaky, saturnine wit of Information Please-one day last week kept a rendezvous with his boss, New York Post Editor Ted Thackrey, to talk things over. "Well," asked F. P. A., "am I fired?" Editor Thackrey suggested a less callous formulation: F. P. A. might prefer to resign. But F. P. A. preferred to be fired...
Last week, also, Fight for Freedom, Inc., U.S. immediate-intervention group, announced that underground German sources had sent it news of another forthcoming German peace campaign. Adolf Hitler would become "ill" and possibly "resign" -to make things easier for Winston Churchill, who has vowed not to negotiate with Nazi leaders. Then the German High Command would make proposals...
...there in 1940) were last week ordered to leave at once by the Right Rev. Charles Shriver Reifsnider. Bishop Reifsnider is one of the three American bishops who were at the head of the church in Japan until the Government forced foreign-mission executives to resign last year. This May, soon after Episcopalians turned over some $5,059,339 worth of property to native churchmen, bland Japanese decorated him with the Order of the Sacred Treasure...
...soccer game between Danish and Viennese teams on Denmark's Constitution Day (June 5) the crowd bombarded German soldiers with rocks and bottles. Result: Minister of Justice Harald Petersen was forced to resign; 60 Danes drew long prison terms. The Nazis charge Danish prisoners two kroner a day board & keep, and if they can't pay it, the Government must...