Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This is too much!" he shouted. "Either I smash my hand across his face, or I attack him for libel, or I resign...
...professor, meanwhile, was branching out into other fields too. In 1933 he led a faculty rebellion against the university's autocratic old chancellor, W. Jasper Kerr, ultimately forcing him to resign and splashing the name of Morse in every newspaper in Oregon. In 1936 Morse went to Washington as a special assistant to Attorney General Homer Cummings (on the recommendation of Raymond Moley) to direct a nationwide study of the administration of criminal law. In 1938 Frances Perkins appointed him West Coast maritime arbitrator, where he made a brilliant reputation as a fair and meticulous judge...
Libra. Three physicists will be suspended from Government atomic energy laboratories for refusing to believe in mesons. After suffering three straight losses, Princeton coach Charlie Caldwell will threaten to resign from the Ivy League and introduce three-platoon football, "just to be on the safe side." the Lampoon will suspend publication and will sell its building to an expanding submarine-sandwich eatery...
...prevented from swallowing up all of Viet Nam. There was great danger in the aura of success that surrounded the Communists in the Far East, where the people want to know: Which side will win? Even in Japan, where the West's good friend, Premier Yoshida, was forced to resign, there was new talk of trade and friendship with Red China. On 1954's Asian ledger, the big figures were...
...Minister of Economy Jaime Nebot made a slighting reference to a high army officer. Incensed at this challenge to military prestige, other officers demanded that the President fire Nebot. Velasco balked, so the armed forces persuaded Defense Minister Reinaldo Varea Dónoso, himself a lieutenant colonel, to resign in protest. Then, one night last week, the commanders redoubled their pressure, insisting that Velasco not only oust Nebot but restore Varea Dónoso...