Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...negotiations, the Socialists agreed to vote for his constitutional amendments, so he had his two-thirds majority anyway. And he swung on the four Free Democratic members of his Cabinet, including Vice Chancellor Franz Blácher: if they wished to remain in the Cabinet, they would have to resign from the party and bring other Deputies along with them. Blücher is a devoted believer in Germany's partnership in the West, has no use for Free Democratic Leader Thomas Dehler's talk of bargaining with Russia for German unity. The struggle was short and sharp...
...Roland E. Turnbull, "is something like not having a union label on your product, or the approval seal of the fire underwriters." A Shurtleff coed cannot join a national sorority or be a member of the American Association of University Women. Even worse, the college has already had to resign from the fund-raising Associated Colleges of Illinois. Yet Baptist Shurtleff has managed to make considerable contribution over the years. Among its alumni four college presidents, 112 college and university teachers, 240 Baptist ministers, 30% of the public school teachers in Alton...
...recent proposal that the Students for Eisenhower join the Political Forum precipitated somewhat of a furor among a number of the members of the former organization. Several, yielding to the rule of emotion, promptly stated that if the proposal were passed they would resign. To these people I can offer no arguments; their minds are closed. However, I would like to address myself to those members of SFE who have open minds and to the student body in general...
...District Judge Jean S. Breitenstein, Travis, 45, drew eight years in prison and an $8,000 fine-the heaviest punishment yet inflicted for perjury on a Taft-Hartley affidavit. Said Communist Travis: "I have been a radical, a nonconformist all my adultlife . . . The Taft-Hartley law would have me resign from all that's not in conformity with popular beliefs...
When the news broke, another out-of-state guest speaker announced that he too would stay home. Then, Professor Morton B. King Jr., chairman of the university's sociology department, resigned from the faculty. The university administration, he charged, is "no longer able to defend the freedom of thought, inquiry and speech which are essential for higher education to flourish." Two days later, at Mississippi State College, Political Scientist William Buchanan decided to resign too. The state house of representatives denounced the two professors as "misguided reformers," urged the heads of all state-supported colleges to "use every effort...