Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...operating control. No longer boss of Richard Thomas, Sir William began taking orders from Governor Norman's new board, on which were the president of the cartel Viscount Greenwood, other old-line steel bigwigs, some of Richard Thomas' own competitors. Some of these were induced to resign last summer in favor of a "more representative" board, and the flush business of building Sir John Anderson's air-raid shelters postponed further disagreement until last month. Then Sir William Firth was fired...
...steel man and a director of the largest subsidiary of Richard Thomas: "So far as I am concerned everything is 1,000,000% above board. The new plant is a great success. . . . Cash position is splendid. . . . Objecting to my criticism . . . they [the board] have tried to persuade me to resign. I flatly refused in order to force them to accept the responsibility for my dismissal. . . . Like our Armies, I am fighting . . . for justice...
...learned last night that knight W. McMahan '33 and Steven H. Stackpole '33, both assistant deans of Harvard College, will resign at the end of the current academic year. Announcement of their successors will be made later in the spring...
...career and one unworthy of a wartime Prime Minister. For the rest of the afternoon and far into the evening he sat and listened to critics who, beginning with Labor Leader Attlee and ending with insurgent Conservative Leopold Charles Maurice Stennett Amery, became more & more insistent that he resign. Louder grew the applause with each new attack on the Government. But the greatest ovation of the day went to long-dead Oliver Cromwell, with whose angry words to the Long Parliament of 1640-53 Insurgent Amery closed his speech...
...minutes after the division, Whip Margesson announced the result: for adjournment, 281 votes; against, 200. Almost every man in uniform had voted against the Government. A split second later, Laborites, Liberals and dissident Conservatives began shouting: "Resign! Go! Go!" Neville Chamberlain rose, smiled wanly, and marched out of the House...