Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington the President announced, defiantly, that he would not fire O'Dwyer and did not expect him to resign. The Ambassador, he explained, is a fighter, just like...
...trustees adjourned to attend his funeral, then returned to Manhattan. This week they were ready with a verdict which recognized the fact that Wagner, right or wrong, could no longer remain as president. They made it clear that they wanted him to resign...
...face of these snowballing attacks, the school board began to weaken in its support of Superintendent Goslin. Finally, while he was in Manhattan to attend a national school meeting, it sent him a telegram asking him to resign. With that, the pro-Goslin forces sprang into action, but it was too late. The board insisted that Goslin must go. "He didn't have the right rapproach," explained one member. "That's the word, 'rapproach' to the grassroots problem...
Senator Hubert H. Humphrey, Democrat of Minnesota: "We cannot have two policies. That is axiomatic. It was MacArthur's obligation to stay within that policy or resign his commission...
Parliamentary corridors buzzed with rumors that Nye Bevan meant to make good lis threat to resign from the cabinet. Most Tories scoffed; from their opposition benches they needled the Minister of Labor-"the main advocate of waste and extravagance of all forms." Cracked Conservative M.P. Osbert Peake: "The Chancellor . . . has succeeded where his predecessors all failed; and even if the Chancellor has not yet succeeded in deflating our swollen economy, he has well and ruly disinflated the pouter pigeon of the Treasury dovecote...