Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...others of the faithful who were sacrificed to Henry Wallace (see p. 12). Disillusioned Mr. Johnson crawled back to Washington. There he wrote a letter to "My Dear Mr. President," black with reminders that at the President's request he had passed up his last chance to resign with dignity when Henry Stimson was appointed; that "my Commander in Chief and longtime friend" now left no alternative but resignation. Louis Johnson sighed that he would go back to his law practice (in Clarksburg, W. Va.), signed himself "obediently yours," hopped off to California in an Army plane...
...Army. He refused to consider forming a party which would merely be a combination of the old corrupt parties; that, he said, would be as futile as "the taking away of the partitions and the paper doors between the rooms of a Japanese house." Finally he reluctantly agreed to resign the Presidency of the Privy Council to form a new party providing the old ones dissolved. But he was not too confident of success. "It will," he said, "be extremely difficult to overcome difficulties...
Died. Paul Klee, 61, Swiss-born painter; in Berne, Switzerland. His scrawly-scratchy works banned as "Bolshevist art," Artist Klee was forced in 1933 to resign as professor at the Academy of Art in Dusseldorf, fled Germany...
...afternoon Amsterdam News's Publisher C. B. Powell called Editor Brown into his office, told him that Roxborough did not like the story, feared it might hurt Joe Louis' status as an idol. Said Powell : "Do you want to resign or be fired?" Earl Brown chose to be fired...
...Rome clinic last week lay Myron Charles Taylor, 66, slowly convalescing from his second gallstone operation in a twelvemonth. Despite his efforts as special ambassador to Pope Pius XII, World War II had spread further than ever. Reports were persistent that Mr. Taylor would resign when he was well enough...