Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...join a political club. Since there was little chance for reward or advancement (i.e., the judgeship Murphy was hoping for), there was little point in staying on the Government payroll for a piddling $9,400 a year. After Hiss's appeal has been completed, therefore, Murphy will resign...
...angry questions were summed up into one by Congressman Anthony F. Tauriello, a freshman Democrat from Buffalo: Why were the armed forces unprepared for war despite Louis Johnson's assurances to the contrary? Johnson, said Tauriello, had "lost the confidence of the American people" and should resign...
...field to his lieutenant governor, 74-year-old Joseph R. Hanley. But Republicans knew that a New York mayoralty election would rouse up an otherwise apathetic, big-city, Democratic vote; as a matter of fact that was one of the reasons why O'Dwyer had been encouraged to resign. In some panic Republicans looked again to Dewey. But there stood Hanley, defiantly repeating his intention to run. All of a sudden, Hanley gave...
...demanded a congressional investigation of federal judges to see if any are Communists or fellow travelers. The decision was also too much for plodding, verbose F. Joseph ("Jiggs") Donohue, the special Department of Justice prosecutor who got Bridges convicted. "God help America!" he cried. "I'm going to resign tomorrow...
...Liberal Venizelos. Instead, Greece got a coalition government under Middle-of-the-Roader Plastiras, who has been accused of being too soft toward the Communists. Five members of Venizelos' Liberal Party were represented in the coalition cabinet, but Venizelos himself stayed aloof. When Venizelos ordered the five to resign last fortnight, the cabinet promptly collapsed and King Paul entrusted Venizelos himself with the task of forming a new government. Plastiras and Papandreou rushed home, but Tsouderos, one of Greece's ablest politicans, stayed on in Washington. This week it looked as if Venizelos would stay on as Premier...