Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about the heads of Washington officials, none matches in intensity and duration the high, fine gale that whistles about Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson. Adding to the airy velocity last week was the voice of Nebraska's Republican Congressman A. L. Miller, who called on Benson to resign from the Eisenhower Cabinet for the good of the Republican Party. The demand was not surprising, for Benson has nearly as many hostile Republican as Democratic critics...
...bring the government down only by an absolute majority vote on motions specifically aimed at its fitness, would force the Deputies to face a new election after two such no-confidence votes within a period of 18 months. If such a reform is passed, Mollet has promised to resign forthwith and stand for reelection...
From that moment on, Larson's career was a closed book. Last week the White House announced that Arthur Larson, 47, would resign from USIA to become a special White House aide for "countering Soviet propaganda." His successor: veteran Career Diplomat George V. Allen, 53, former Ambassador to Iran, Yugoslavia, India and Greece, onetime Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs and an old hand with Congress...
...conservative French Catholics and the Vatican's Holy Office, it is a wrenching departure from tradition, alarming both by its content and the mood that produced it-so much so that the Vatican ordered it withdrawn, reportedly called on its author, Lyon-born Canon Joseph Colomb, to resign...
David Adamany '58, president of the HYDC, said that he regretted losing Dean and that, "It is a true reflection of Bill's character, however, that he should resign his offices when he felt that he was unable to carry out the responsibilities vested...