Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stout, amiable Joseph Pholien, a lawyer who helped found Belgium's postwar Social Christian Party, unexpectedly became Belgium's Premier last October, after the royal abdication crisis had forced Premier Jean Duvieusart to resign. Pholien grew very fond of his new office. He was irritated, however, by the globetrotting reminiscences of Foreign Minister Paul Van Zeeland, ex-Premier Paul-Henri Spaak, and other colleagues...
...officers succeed S. Kenric Lessey 3L, Albert L. Cohn 3L, and Jack E. Hollenberg 3L who were forced to resign due to school work pressure. The incoming group will serve until the early part of next year when a new board will then be chosen...
Finally President Blanding moved, ordering the dismissal of the four, and later allowing them to resign voluntarily. Feuer, who received his Ph.D. at Harvard in 1935, and Richfield did not return for the spring term, but Miss Mothersill and Spielberg remained to finish the academic year...
...quickly established a reputation as an independent Democrat. In 1943 he fathered the Fulbright resolution, which first formally committed the U.S. firmly to internationalism after World War II. In 1944 he became a Senator. Two years later, when the Republicans captured Congress, he proposed that Harry Truman resign in favor of a Republican. Ever since, the President has called the junior Senator from Arkansas "that overeducated Oxford blank-blank." A legislator with a moral sense, Fulbright was offended as he dug deeper & deeper into the activities of the RFC. One day last week he rose in the Senate to discuss...
Next the powder went off under Crane himself. The president of the A.F.L. International Association of Fire Fighters sent him a telegram from Washington asking him to resign as the International's vice president. Crane with consummate audacity replied: "It is indeed unfortunate . . . that you see fit to indulge in petty politics . . ." He was suspended forthwith. But the New York local of the union seemed perfectly content to keep him on as its president...