Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...court a decade earlier by his good friend Abraham Lincoln, accepted the Labor Reform Party's nomination, hoping that it would be a steppingstone to victory in the Liberal Republican convention. When the Liberal Republicans turned him down, Davis withdrew from the Labor nomination, did not resign from the court...
...economist for both Manhattan's Irving Trust Co. and the U.S. Department of Commerce, in 1950 ran smack into a storm of controversy when, as dean of the college of commerce at the University of Illinois, he tried to liberalize his faculty and was finally forced to resign...
Coin of Vantage. In Mt. Morris, N.Y., Mayor Craig Shurtleff sought reelection, wound up in a tie with Serafine La Delfa, sadly agreed to resign after Village Board Trustee Ray Brady flipped a coin and declared La Delfa the winner...
WHILE the fate of Chiang and China hinged on decisions in Peking and Washington, Sir Winston, keeping a firm rein ort his own fate, resigned-just when TIME said he would (TIME, April 4). Knowing that the Prime Minister had wavered in his decision for almost a year, I asked our London Bureau how it had been so sure of the date in advance. "On March 9, I had a drink with a politician I trust, and he told me the decision had been taken, that Churchill would resign in the first week of April,'' cabled Bureau Chief...
...Brazilian constitution requires that state governors who intend to run for President resign at least six months before election day. As the April resignation deadline neared, Jânio Quadros passed the word that he was thinking of running. It was highly doubtful whether Quadros really intended to give up the governorship of Brazil's richest state only six months after his election in order to run a long-shot race for the Presidency, but his cold-blooded bluff panicked the leaders of the Távora alliance. Asked to name his price for staying out, Quadros unblinkingly demanded...