Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thought so was Franklin Roosevelt. Next afternoon a White House messenger carried a note to stubborn Harry Hines Woodring, Secretary of War, long engaged in a deadly, morale-destroying feud with Assistant Secretary Louis Johnson, and long rumored to be under pressure to resign. The note requested his resignation...
Roosevelt was steering the U. S. into war, called upon him to resign, let Jack Garner run the country...
...thunder of war. So did the U. S. care-under certain circumstances. The country waited to see whether or not the G. 0. P. would nominate a man who could be the nation's leader. The Party's problem was to pick such a man, or resign the nation's leadership to Franklin Roosevelt...
...Cromwell, no diplomat, was Minister to Canada for 142 days. Twenty of these passed before he took office; of the remainder, it was said that nothing could break the bonds of U. S.-Canadian friendship. Installed in the Legation at Ottawa, Mr. Cromwell announced that he would soon resign to run for Senator of New Jersey-a declaration which aroused more enthusiasm in the State Department than had amateurish Mr. Cromwell's passionate but undiplomatic denunciations of Hitler...
Actually, the War Industries Board had no specific legislative authority to fix prices. The vagueness of its powers, in fact, broke the health of its first chairman (Cleveland Lathe Maker Frank Scott) and caused its second (Railroader Daniel Willard) to resign. Not until Woodrow Wilson put Bernard Mannes Baruch in charge and armed him with personal backing did the Board really function effectively. That was in March 1918-eleven months after the U. S. entered...