Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ride with him on the two-minute drive to Buckingham Palace, where Mr. Churchill had to see the King. The anxious young Duke went straight to the point: "Mr. Prime Minister, as my name has been associated with Rudolf Hess, I feel it is only right for me to resign my position as Lord Steward of His Majesty's Household." Churchill: "Come now, my boy, we can't have you do that...
...could not endure, since patriotic Leftists of other parties are convinced that the Communists take orders from Moscow. The second bill Don Tinto vetoed was one outlawing the Communist Party This time the veto stuck, but Don Tinto's own Radical Party ordered six of its members to resign from the Cabinet in protest. This they did, but the President persuaded them to reconsider. Thereupon they were kicked out of the Party...
...week explained that René de Chambrun was one of a series of speakers that also included British Novelist Phyllis Bentley "at the suggestion of Dr. Hotson." Furthermore, Dr. Morley said that Dr. Hotson asked for a raise soon after Dr. Morley arrived at Haverford last October, was refused, resigned last month. Dr. Reitzel, the president said, "informed me of his intention to resign" in October...
...Salvation Army General Evangeline Booth, after a brief collapse from the heat; Democratic National Committee Boss Ed Flynn, with bronchitis, after measles; ex-New Jersey Governor Harold G. Hoffman, following a hernia operation. Ill again of dysentery was Kermit Roosevelt in London, where failing health forced him to resign his commission as major in the British Army...
...been deadlocked with the legislature for two and a half years, with neither able to do much, Texans say the State has forged steadily ahead. When Senator Sheppard died last month, legislators thought they saw a golden opportunity to get rid of the Governor. They unanimously urged him to resign, have his Lieutenant Governor appoint him Senator, and hie himself to Washington...