Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...surprising to hardly anyone else. Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Marion Folsom, in poor health and discouraged over the failure of his school-construction program to make headway in Congress, has been wanting to resign for months. And President Eisenhower's intention to name Arthur Flemming as his new HEW Secretary was one of Washington's worst-kept secrets...
Harry Hoehler, Assistant Dean of Freshmen, will resign his position on June 31 to enter the ministry...
John Eyre's academic experience has been a mixed one. "I have great respect for the field of English, perhaps less so for the department. I threatened to resign from the university and go to Oxford when they reneged on permission to write a thesis." He changed his mind about doing honors but wrote a thesis anyway on Anglo-Saxon poetry, a taste he acquired at Oxford, where such matters are encouraged to the point of compulsion...
...decision to resign was made because Ryan felt his presence on the Executive Committee "gives tacit approval to the actions of this administration...
After Sundown. The effect of this "friendly warning" on the Gaillard government was electric. When the crucial Cabinet meeting opened at 9 a.m., right-wing ministers were breathing heavily over U.S. "interference in French affairs," adamantly proclaiming their determination to resign rather than agree to "excessive concessions" to Tunisia. But two hours after sundown, when liveried footmen finally flung open the doors to mark the end of the session, florid right-wing Agriculture Minister Roland Boscary-Monsservin told waiting reporters: "There have been no resignations. The government has reached a decision in principle...