Word: resignations
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Professional Joe Martin, back in Washington, bronzed from the Nassau sun, repeated his determination to resign in the spring as chairman of the Republican National Committee. Said he of an amateur: "Mr. Willkie would make a splendid chairman and I think the Republican Party would be delighted to have him, but whether it would fit into his plans I do not know...
...Grebanier had become fed up with the party, tried to resign, was finally expelled instead as a "Trotskyite." Today, thanks to the Moscow-Berlin pact, he told the committee, Communist membership at Brooklyn College has "dwindled to the vanishing point...
...well-informed Mexicans think that the assassination of Madero was not political. Madero had many personal enemies. For instance, only a few days before his death Madero had, in one of his maniacal frenzies, personally shot two members of his own staff, when they tried to persuade him to resign after the report was confirmed that General Blanquete, whose troops had been called into the city to aid Madero, was training his guns on Madero's palace. There is abundant proof, attested by written statement of the Ambassadors of England, Spain, Germany and Brazil and by the American colony...
...sound purposes of the law and represents an attempt to use the law as an instrument to fix prices. . . . The Department of Justice already has issued warnings against combinations under any guise whatever taking advantage of the war crisis to raise prices to consumers. . . . Safeway is forced to resign." With that he left the hall, ignoring shouts that he stay to answer questions...
...Peace, It Is Wonderful!" C. I. O. met to hear its President John Lewis make good his promise to resign. Six hundred delegates heard him. He wept. He resigned. He advised the convention not to "consume your time in criticism and slander and vilification," and hurled insults at "silly old Bill Green," president of A. F. of L. He declared: "The labor movement cannot exist or function without confidence on the part of its members, each with the other, confidence that they will associate themselves together. . . ." The next day, jut-jawed, broad face pale, he delivered a bilious soliloquy, kindled...