Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both Lee and Remington served notice that they would not quit their jobs. "I cannot of course resign under fire," said
...Board. This year, new charges were brought up against them in a congressional committee and on the floor of the Senate, leading to a new review by the Commerce Loyalty Board, a review which is still in progress. Two days ago, the Secretary of Commerce asked both men to resign "in the interest of good administration in the department...
...sound & fury of massed fighting men around him. Throughout his life, Grant detested bloodshed ("I never went into a battle willingly or with enthusiasm"), refused even to hunt animals. "I had a horror of the Mexican War," he once wrote, "only I had not moral courage enough to resign." From the campaigns fought by Mexican War Generals Winfield Scott and Zachary Taylor (Grant's military idol), observant Grant shrewdly unlearned some of early 19th Century West Point's rigidified teachings, e.g., the maxim that an attacking force must be at least three times larger than a fortified defending...
...Allison Palmer had been teaching for only three months at the Lincoln School in Bergenfield, N. J. (pop. 12,000) when she went in to see her supervising principal. She and her husband were moving to Nevada, she said, and she wanted to resign. But before she left, there was something she thought the principal ought to know. Of 22 children in her first-and second-grade class, said Teacher Palmer, 21 had television sets at home and the results had been disastrous...
...initiation preliminaries, were driven eight miles out of town and left to make their own way back. Hit by a truck at 8 a.m. after they had fallen asleep on the edge of the road, one was killed, the other injured. Wittenberg ordered officers of the fraternity to resign, suspended its charter for the rest of the year...