Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Smart Guys. Editor Morris, who has had to resign his parish post in Birkdale, Lancashire to devote full time to the magazine, deftly manages to dispense his message without sacrificing any of the thrills & chills his readers expect for their thruppence. But beneath the candy coating the Christian pill can be detected in such touches as the special, advanced category of Eagle Club members called "Mugs...
...Maclean was as repelled by his cozy desk job as his superiors were determined that he should stay in it. In Foreign Office Regulations, Diplomat Maclean found the loophole he was looking for: an inexorable rule that any civil servant who participated in politics would have to resign. Hurrying around to his chief, Sir Alexander Cadogan (for the last four years Britain's delegate to U.N.), Maclean declared a sudden passion for political controversy. "In that case," replied Sir Alexander with icy brevity, "you will have to leave the Service...
From the beginning, both sides had agreed on one thing: they wanted no Communist teachers. But there agreement stopped. When the regents ordered faculty holdouts to the loyalty oath (13.5% of a teaching staff of 4,000) to sign or resign by April 30 (TIME, March 6), most of the faculty rose in arms...
...students of north Belgium's University of Ghent (enrollment 2,500) had no sooner heard the last words of the announcement than they began grumbling ominously. Their mild-mannered Rector Norbert Goormaghtigh was going to resign, and it was all because the Minister of Education in Brussels had appointed a local doctor named Joseph Van de Velde to the vacant chair of clinical surgery. The rector did not want him, nor did his. students. "Van de Velde can't even speak Flemish," was the students' cry. "This is Walloon interference again...
...more classes." They broke into the Commercial School for Girls. They invaded the ancient Castle of the Counts of Flanders and swarmed around its towers. Then they decided to move on Van de Velde's house itself, crying "Down with Van de Velde. We want Flemish professors. Resign! Resign!" At first they found themselves screaming at the wrong Dr. Van de Velde, a Ghent medical faculty man with the first name of Jean. But that did not embarrass them. Cried one striker: "What's the difference? This one can't talk Flemish properly either." Nothing, they decided...