Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...volatile French had finally settled down. But last week they went on a political spree again. Even as it was playing host to the Schuman Plan conference, Premier Georges Bidault's eight-month-old government lost a vote of confidence in the Assembly, was forced to resign...
...April 21 of this year. On the first date the Regents established an oath of non-adherence to any "subversive" organizations: the oath was later revised under pressure of faculty protests. Then in February, 1950, the Regents voted that employees on the eight California campuses must either "sign or resign" by April 30. This ultimatum unified faculty indignation against the oath order so solidly that the Regents were forced to compromise their position on April 21 by agreeing to an Alumni committee proposal acceptable to most of the faculty. Under this proposal the oath is not separately administered...
...Georgia college president may have been pushed to resign last summer because of "radical racial views." He is James A. Coiston, who resigned as head of Georgia State 'College for Negroes is Savannak last August...
...city of Isezaki. To Isezaki's clubwomen Mrs. Yamada shrilled, "No concubine is fit to be a member of a women's organization." Taking Mrs. Yamada at her word, the respected chief secretary of the Isezaki chapter, 39-year-old Nami Marata, remorsefully decided to resign. Nami, as everyone in the Isezaki chapter knew, is the mistress of a wealthy merchant...
...would teach Japan democracy. It is not directed against Communist espionage; instead it gags words and opinions, snatches that right to free expression which democracy supposedly protects. None of the 24 will be allowed to speak publically, and eight of them who are elected members of the Diet must resign. The ban is extended to seventeen editors of the Communist newspaper, "Akahata"; presumably these men must stop drawing Japanese characters...