Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...General Robert E. Wood, 76, announced that he will resign this month, after 28 years as chairman of Sears, Roebuck's Savings and Profit-Sharing Pension Fund, which under his guidance has grown from $70 million in assets to $860 million. It has helped Sears clerks and truck drivers retire in affluence, holds 25.4% of Sears stock. Two years ago Wood resigned as board chairman, but remains a Sears director, chairman of its finance committee, and a director of half a dozen other companies...
...opponent whose name was printed on the ballot. Thurmond stumped as a write-in because he was angry at the South Carolina Democratic Executive Committee for hand-picking a candidate (Edgar Brown) instead of holding a primary. In that campaign Thurmond promised the voters that, if elected, he would resign before the next regular primary to let them do the picking...
More than any other seat in the U.S. Senate, the Republican Party wants the one now held by Oregon's ex-Republican, ex-Independent, presently Democratic Senator Wayne Morse. Last week Interior Secretary Douglas McKay, onetime (1949-53) Oregon governor, announced that he will resign from his Cabinet post about June 11 to run against Morse. In its pitting of opposites, the Morse-McKay campaign shapes up next only to the presidential contest as the fight of the year...
...Eden's disjointed, defensive speech he made the mistake of calling Gait-skell's criticism of the Baghdad Pact "a milder echo of the Moscow radio," and had to take his words back. Having risen to Tory cheers, he sat down to a Labor thunder of "Resign! resign!" Gaitskell, shouting at the top of his lungs to be heard, cried: "In view of the totally unsatisfactory nature of the Prime Minister's reply, we shall divide the House...
Those who threaten to resign from Students for Eisenhower if this proposal is passed show themselves to be only "bread and butter" Eisenhower supporters. May I urge all of our members to consider the arguments rationally and prove that SFE is truly a clear-headed and independent organization. Morton Korn '57, Chairman, Students for Eisenhower...