Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wrong. Huffed Superintendent Threatte when she showed him the statement : "This may not be the last you hear of this business." The same day, a school-board member called on Armstrong Baskin, told him that his wife should resign, or be fired. A few days later, Superintendent Threatte, Board Chairman Wallace Thigpen and Member John Crum visited Teacher Baskin herself. Confronted by the awesome threesome of Threatte, Thigpen and Crum, she decided to quit...
...House of Commons next day, Laborites greeted the government with shouts: "Resign! Resign!" Opposition Leader Hugh Gaitskell taunted: "In view of the catastrophe which has overtaken the party opposite, and the decline in the Conservative vote from over 50% to under 20% of the electors, does not the right honorable gentleman think it desirable that the business for next week should be scrapped and Parliament dissolved immediately...
...Advanced Research Projects Agency must also be able to defend himself against sharpshooting from Congress and from the three armed services. Picked for the post last week by Defense Secretary McElroy: squarejawed, cool-eyed Roy W. (for William) Johnson, 52, vice president of the General Electric Corp. Johnson will resign from G.E. (but keep "substantial" G.E. stock), take over ARPA April i after two weeks of briefings for an assignment that has no precedent...
...champion of the European free trade area, he has earned wide respect for his ability in administering the thorny ministries of Pensions and Agriculture, has been described as "everybody's second choice for every senior post in the government." Thorneycroft was the first Chancellor of the Exchequer to resign in protest against government policy since 1886, when Lord Randolph Churchill. Sir Winston's father, quit the Cabinet of Lord Salisbury.* Despite all Harold Macmillan's reassurances, so drastic a protest inevitably stirred fears that the government was, in fact, backing away from the stern fiscal policies that...
...half of Naples came boiling into the streets one evening last week. Tatterdemalion crowds surged and shoved into the battlemented Castel Nuovo, where the kings of Anjou once ruled the kingdom of the Two Sicilies. A huge sign went with them: "For the love of your Naples, do not resign! The ship is in peril, you must stay at the helm!" The mob was out in defense of Naples' Mayor Achille Lauro, the flamboyant millionaire shipowner and Monarchist whose freewheeling administration has won him the title of Il Re del Mezzogiorno ("The King of the South...