Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hate on certain faces," he cried, "is plain for all to see." He sneered at the "new left," which. he said, goes from sectarianism to collectivism, with a whiff of Gaullism. Some of his speech could hardly be heard over a chorus of whistles, groans, boos and shouts of "Resign, resign...
...Steel stockholders gathered in Hoboken, N.J.'s Union Club ("The only guaranteed annual audience I ever get"), he made a special announcement. After 42 years in the steel business, and three as boss of the industry's biggest company, the time had come to resign. Said Fairless: "There must always be room at the top of our management team for young men with young ideas and a fresh, new outlook." At that, the stockholders all got up and sang Happy Birthday, then sat down to a lunch of cold turkey, ham, salad, pie and coffee...
Reports that South Viet Nam's Premier Ngo Dinh Diem is about to resign "may be a bit premature," said a State Department official carefully. Returning from Saigon to report to Dwight Eisenhower, the President's special envoy, General J. Lawton Collins, would only say that "We are behind the legal government of Viet Nam," and he didn't mention Premier Ngo Dinh Diem. The French government, wise in such subtleties of omission, concluded that General Collins had perhaps given way to them, and was recommending Diem's replacement...
...friends) appeared at the Admiralty in London and took office as Britain's First Sea Lord. The last First Sea Lord to steer H.M.'s Navy from the green-walled room Mountbatten chose as his office was his father, Prince Louis of Battenberg, who was forced to" resign at the outbreak of World War I, after 45 years of devoted naval service, because of public outcry over his German birth. Though he had openly aspired to the post for a good part of his dashing life as a seagoing navyman, handsome Dickie seemed a bit awed at sitting...
...promise to step down from the company's chairmanship after he wins the fight, and turn Ward's over to new, outside management. But Avery's closest backers denied the buzzing rumor. Said one: "Personally, I don't think he's ever going to resign." As the showdown at Ward's annual meeting neared this week, Wolfson, who two months ago had been singing victory hymns, changed to a more modest tune. Instead of predicting a majority of the nine-director board, Wolfson, who admitted that he has already spent...