Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...officials and staff members of the Communist-dominated International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers. They were charged with conspiring to defraud the U.S. by obtaining the services of the National Labor Relations Board without lawfully qualifying the union for those services, i.e., some had "pretended" to resign from the Communist Party and had filed false non-Communist affidavits with the NLRB. Among the indicted: "Mine-Mill's'' eye-patched onetime President Maurice E. Travis. 46. already under an eight-year federal sentence (and free pending appeal) for filing false non-Communist oaths...
Clearly, Stone had forced a test of his strength. In refusing to head a UN-directed drive, he tacitly had agreed to resign if the Council did not go along with his wishes, and more important, displayed that he had little actual concern for the welfare of Hungarian citizens--which the UN as well as WUS of course, has. To Council members about to vote on the matter, his fund-collecting agency rightly seemed to be the only efficient way of assembling a Harvard gift...
Outside, a few less ravenous Council members observed that Stone, whom one compared to a New England bowsprit, "wooden, but enterprising," should have been forced to resign. Stone himself admitted that the probable reason for his going against the UN was his commitment to WUS. The WUS man said no commitment had been made. It seemed, rather, a commitment to one man's pride...
...Defense Department Charlie Wilson has been reported ready to step down as soon as the President will let him go. A likely time for Wilson to resign: as soon as the complicated Defense budget has been approved by Congress (probably April). One possible successor: Air Force Secretary Donald A. Quarles, 62, a good administrator and longtime scientist-executive (Bell Labs), who has managed to keep himself out of the interservice trouble. Another: bald, short (5 ft. 7 in.), terrier-tough Charles S. Thomas, former Assistant Secretary of Defense and, since 1954, the Secretary of the Navy who helped goad conservative...
Unfortunately the Republican party does not have many men with great experience in foreign affairs. Perhaps their most striking figure is John Sherman Cooper, but he would scarcely be likely to resign his newly-won Senate seat. Of the others, three men suggest themselves as successors to Dulles--Thomas E. Dewey, Christian A. Herter '15, and Henry Cabot Lodge '24. Lodge is the only one now working in the realm of foreign affairs, as U.N. delegate, but his record there is not impressive, He has rarely been more than efficient, and his best remembered act was a refusal to shake...