Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Johnson also wanted the Senators to know that the famed $13 billion muscle-without-fat budget for 1949-50 was imposed on him by the President. "I was sick about it. My choice was to try to make that thing work or resign." But looking back, he refused to admit that the $13 billion budget was a mistake, though the services had originally asked for $30 billion. In fact, Johnson lectured the Senators, they should worry even now that the services "will ask you for more stuff than is necessary for the safety of America ... I am concerned still that...
Private Life: Married, has six children. Seldom misses a bullfight (no mean amateur torero himself) or horse race. Likes weekends at one of his farms. "Every Friday night I resign," he says, "and resume office Monday morning...
...attitude was out of line, Pundit Baxter did not "have to resign from [his] club" as he feared. But last week the Oxford undergraduate newspaper Comment undertook to set him straight. "There is only one reason why we have a sporting willingness to lose, and that is because we are in no doubt of our own ultimate superiority . . . That Cambridge should bother to win the Boat Race with such monotonous, and it must be said, ill-bred regularity, is a sign of a sense of despair. No loyal Oxford man can be anything but proud of the crew which sank...
...your May 21 Press section under the heading "Exit from the Nation" you ran a report which conveyed an inaccurate impression . . . Without arguing the merits of [Editor Freda Kirchwey's] libel suit, I want to state that my decision to resign as executive editor of the Nation antedated the libel suit brought against Mr. Clement Greenberg and the New Leader, and no connection between the two actions should be implied...
That previous year, 1946, several members of the HDC were forced to resign from that organization for having participated in the initial VTW play, "I Was a King in Babylon...