Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Having declared himself ready and willing to take active duty wherever and whenever, he was not asked to resign. (TIME erred last week in indicating that he had been retired.) Reservist Winchell was asked to continue doing the same duties as in the past. Last week he declared that he was going to spend his vacation at work for the Navy, visiting naval establishments in his district (Third Naval District...
...Japan's are scarcely distinguishable, but it would be possible for Japan's Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye and Japan's Privy Council and, above all, Japan's well-advised Emperor Hirohito to choose a course that would leave Mr. Matsuoka with no alternative but to resign. That would be the course of conservatism, of rapprochement with the U.S., of resistance to Germany. That course, as of last week, looked as hazardous as the course of rash adventure, because the London-Washington Axis has yet to win a major victory...
...recent Labor Conference he was taken ill on the first day, and for the rest of the week was absent-and no one missed him." Mrs. Strauss is somewhat shocked that while "Attlee appears to have a deep humility, it is not quite deep enough" to make him "resign from the leadership...
Last week doughty, democratic, battle-scarred Thomas H. Wintringham, 43, was allowed to resign from the leadership of Britain's Home Guard Training School, which he so largely created. Many an observer of Britain's war effort wondered whether the War Office-at times seemingly bow-&-arrow minded-was trying to lose...
...maintain them will soon be scattered over southwest China from the Burma border to Chungking. These pilots were not just a crew of barnstormers turned warstormers. They had been, until recently, crack U.S. Army Air Corps pilots. To take on this combat job they had been allowed to resign their Air Corps posts, enlist in the Chinese Air Force on the understanding that their U.S. Army seniorities would not be affected. Another somewhat whimsical technical understanding is that they will not "take the offensive" against the Japanese Air Force, but will merely defend the Road...