Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more than willing to resign my post if the class wants a new election. Robert R. Foster Second Marshal...
...petition circulated in the dining halls yesterday noon and evening, asking that the four Senior Class Marshals resign and that a new election be held, has gained the support of "over 450 seniors" according to Bernard I. Gladieux '59 who supervised the signing in Dunster House...
...Gaulle made highly effective use of surprise, silence, and silence's sister, the oracular utterance. "I have understood you," he told a wildly cheering crowd during his first trip to Algiers after becoming Premier. Only four months later, when he abruptly ordered all French army officers to resign from the insurrectionary Committees of Public Safety, did the right-wing Europeans of Algiers realize that what he had meant was that he understood them and disapproved. Last week, with almost equal lack of forewarning, De Gaulle suddenly began churning out a series of decrees that he had been quietly preparing ever...
...risk, if not of dynamite, of economic reprisals such as loss of jobs, promotions, trouble with city licenses, city contracts, harassment on petty auto mobile offenses, tightening up on loans, etc. Mayor James Morgan, popular with businessmen, in office since 1937, is privately telling friends that he intends to resign next year - "I used to enjoy going to the City Hall. I don't any more." Housewives who profess moderation run the risk of social ostracism. White ministers, asked to help improve communications between the races, reply only with general ities. Says one moderate: "It isn't enough...
Next he made fat offers to Ashley Cooper and Mai Anderson, the two players on whom Australia is depending to defend the Davis Cup. All the while he kept up a drumfire of criticism against the embattled L.T.A.A., many of whose members argued bitterly that Kramer should resign from the U.S. team if he was going to spend his time recruiting the Aussie Cup defenders. Complained one official: "Kramer's a member of the U.S. team, and that means we have to invite him to official functions. It's a pretty ticklish situation when you have to play...