Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scoffing at Sputnik I as a "silly bauble," Nixon publicly proclaimed the Russian satellite a serious, important challenge to U.S. technology. He works hard with Republican National Chairman Meade Alcorn to bolster the morale of Republican organizations across the country, privately wishes that Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson would resign to help the party in the farm states. Again, it was his awareness of the Administration's political shortcomings that last week moved Nixon out front on the tax issue...
...Baker, were Florida's Democratic Senators George Smathers and Spessard Holland, together with Tennessee's Estes Kefauver. Their crime, to Baker's mind: pressuring the FCC for a rival Channel 10 applicant while the case was under consideration. Snapped Baker: "Holland, Smathers and Kefauver ought to resign, just as Commissioner Mack has, and for the same reason . . . Their halos have slipped...
...President last week to attack a member of his Cabinet. They argued that Benson will lose the Republicans 20 to 25 House seats and five Midwestern governors. Face to face with the President, they did not quite have the nerve to demand Benson's resignation. But they suggested meaningfully that maybe if the anti-Benson heat got hot enough, Benson might resign of his own accord. They got a stony presidential look in return...
...angry voice of Editor Louis B. Seltzer of Scripps-Howard's Cleveland Press (circ. 313,749). Under the headline THESE THINGS DON'T MIX, the Press urged that Jackson either drop out of the governor's race or 1) quit as political editor and 2) resign from the parole board, on which "the chance to make some extra friends by being extra lenient is just too appealing to pass up." Added the Press: "Trying to make himself look good (as a candidate) when he knows (as a reporter) he can't win, [Jackson] makes himself...
Until the Cabinet explains why they held no referendum, it will appear that they were afraid that a referendum would not succeed. Few undergraduates who have devoted enough of their time to earn membership would willingly resign such an important prerogative. Such a referendum could have easily been conducted simultaneously with the one that was held earlier this month concerning union with the Radcliffe group. PBH President William Freehling '58 now admits that there would have been no Radcliffe referendum had it not been for the request of PBH's faculty advisers...