Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...committee had hardly left New York before the powder which had spilled during ex-Fireman Crane's confession began to go off. In tones of hurried, hoarse outrage, Mayor Vincent Impellitteri gave Water Commissioner James J. Moran 24 hours to resign the $15,000-a-year lifetime job which Bill O'Dwyer had given him last summer. Next day, face ashen, hands shaking, Moran let a clutch of reporters into his Brooklyn house and read off a letter of resignation. He did not mention Crane's tale of giving him $55,000, ended up in feeble defiance...
Dewey will have to resign, if he wants to make good his threat. He put Lucky Luciano in jail and then let him out again; he can hardly claim that he is not familiar with Luciano. He accepted money for his presidential campaign from the same John Crane whose contributions to Mayor O'Dwyer will be the object of criminal investigation. As Frank Costello put it, you are bound to rub elbows with all kinds of people in New York...
...Goat. Dunham insisted that Dawson himself had never tried to influence him on a RFC loan. But, he conceded, "I think I have outlived my usefulness with the RFC." He had tentatively written out a resignation several weeks ago, he said, and gone to Florida for a vacation. There he got a call from RFC's Vice Chairman G. Edward Rowe. Rowe thought it "imperative" that he resign at once. "You just resign and say the committee crucified you," Rowe told him. "I think that will straighten out the whole matter." To be helpful, Rowe even dictated the letter...
...Communism, signed one of the stiffest protest petitions yet leveled against Dr. Hewlett ("The Red Dean") Johnson. Said the letter: "As loyal Christians, we do believe that it is impossible to serve two masters, and so we must ask you now to dissociate yourself from Communism or else to resign from the office of Dean of Canterbury . . ." Dr. Johnson had "no comment...
Last fall, R. Deborah Labenow '51 was asked to resign from the press board for reporting "detrimental to the best interests of Radcliffe...