Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...changed . . . but Labor understands this new world. We can treat the demands of Asia and Africa with understanding." And reacting to the Tory slogan, "A Vote for Labor Is a Vote for Bevan," Clement Attlee devoted a final broadcast to scotching the whispering campaign that, if elected, he would resign in favor of Bevan. "I am not going to resign," he said, "unless the people of this country reject my leadership...
5.Shipping lanes. 15. A formal demand that this headline-happy foe of alleged Communism in the Government resign or be expelled from the Senate came from...
...matter was particularly embarrassing to Old Friend Truman because Finnegan had just told a House subcommittee that he had tried three times to resign as collector, and his resignation had been turned down. The last time, the President asked him to stay on, said Finnegan. Harry Truman, at his press conference, said his recollection was rather hazy on the conversation, but the White House staff thought what Finnegan said was true. He learned about Finnegan's outside activities just a short time ago, said the President solemnly, and he does not approve of them...
...Congress didn't think it would sound so inconceivable to the voters. With the backing of such old Gabrielson defenders as Colorado's Eugene Millikin, and with no opposition from Ohio's Bob Taft and Maine's Owen Brewster, they tried to get Gabrielson to resign. He refused...
Harry Truman was turkey-proud. This shows, Truman told reporters triumphantly, that "he's a lot smarter than any of these guys who have been attacking him." At his press conference, Truman squelched a rumor that Acheson was about to resign in his moment of triumph: "As long as I am President of the United States, he is going to be Secretary of State." said Harry Truman flatly...