Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Secretary of War Henry Stimson was expected to resign about Jan. 1. For the vacancy New Dealers wishfully promoted Robert P. Patterson, now Assistant Secretary. But best indications were that Patterson would go with Stimson. New York City's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia was still a strong possibility...
Premier Pétain announced laws against French Jews. The laws defined a Jew as a man with three Jewish grandparents or two Jewish grandparents and a Jewish wife. They barred most such men from all but minor public jobs, requiring incumbent Jewish officeholders to resign within two months; from positions in the Army, Navy, Air Force; from jobs as teachers; from positions in press, radio, cinema. Vichy was very proud that these decrees were milder than Germany's-that Jews may retain civil rights as citizens. Some professions were not purged...
...troubled University of Wisconsin after the late Dr. Glenn Frank was ousted, did a good job there as well. That change cost him a $10,000 salary cut (from $25,000 to $15,000). His new job will entail another cut (to $10,000). But he did not resign from the university; after he had talked to Franklin Roosevelt last week, the university's board of regents gave Dr. Dykstra an indefinite leave of absence...
Because his appointment as a reservist captain in the Army Specialists Reserve had kicked up such a fuss that it might have "an injurious effect on the selective service program," Elliott Roosevelt last week tried to resign his commission, so that he could go home to Fort Worth to register for the draft. On the grounds that his services were needed and that poor eyesight would disqualify him for fighting or flying, Brigadier General Oliver P. Echols, his commanding officer at Wright Field, refused his resignation...
...commissioner's job, took another, as head of New York's Associated Hospital Service (3?-a-day plan). Until the Mayor could find someone to take his place, he continued to pinch-hit as hospital commissioner. Last week he was finally able to resign, for the Mayor had persuaded 48-year-old Willard Cole Rappleye, dean of Columbia's medical and dental schools, to fill in for the 15 months of the Mayor's unexpired term. Gentle, white-haired Dr. Rappleye, an old friend of Dr. Goldwater, plans to return to Columbia next year...