Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...resign the office-only the office-and nothing else. Our friendship will and must go on as always...
...Government must resign. The Australian crisis is urgent and the Government is only dragging us deeper into it. . . . Instead of defending Australian shores many Australian troops are stranded in the Middle East, with their lines of communication threatened. Others are stationed in England where there still exists an army of unemployed men who could easily be converted into soldiers. . . . All our industries should be nationalized and controlled by the Government. The Government complains of a shortage of skilled workers, while there are 160,000 registered unemployed. The wide powers given to Mr. Menzies, as Minister for Munitions, to marshal skilled...
Three days after the Guild convention ended last month, Bill Laurence sent in his resignation from the Guild. Thereupon, Bill Laurence learned that under Guild rules he cannot resign, can only be expelled. If the Guild had a Guild shop at the Times and he were expelled from the Guild he would also have to be discharged...
...Woodrow Wilson had him quit as Assistant Secretary of the Navy as soon as he began campaigning. Cracked a reporter: "When does Wallace start campaigning?" Mr. Roosevelt laughed and dropped the subject. A few hours later Mr. Wallace picked it up, settled it after a fashion: ". . . I plan to resign or take a leave of absence without pay . . . as soon as I begin active political campaigning. This will be shortly after my notification ceremonies and acceptance in late August...
...conferences, a stanch U. S. friend is scholarly Buenos Aires Lawyer Melo, onetime Radical Antiper-sonalista (conservative) Deputy & Senator, onetime Minister of Interior. At the Panama meeting last autumn he went over the head of Foreign Minister Jose M. Cantilo, appealed directly to President Roberto M. Ortiz, threatened to resign unless Argentina approved U. S. plans for a neutrality belt around the Americas...