Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Returning to twist the dirk already thrust into the Reber brothers, McCarthy asked General Reber: "Are you aware of the fact that your brother was allowed to resign when charges that he was a bad security risk were made against him as a result of the investigation of this committee?" Jenkins roared in protest. McClellan roared in protest. McCarthy talked on, stuck to his question. General Reber sat in silence, gripping the edges of the witness table until his knuckles showed white. Finally, McCarthy, having made his point over radio and television, dismissed the entire question as unimportant, and grandly...
Wrapped up in the cause of the tyrannized colonies, Hancock was frequently out of town and handled the University's funds without troubling to keep books. By 1776, the school bad had enough, but Hancock paid no attention to hints that he resign his stewardship...
When the Bolsheviks signed the treaty of Brest-Litovsk, the peace treaty with the Germans in 1918, Steinberg said he and his fellow Socialist Revolutionaries determined to resign from the government...
...however, that the week's maneuverings had pushed France's day of decision closer. "It would have been impossible for me to go to Geneva . . . without at least a decision as to the date," said Bidault. "If the outcome had been different, I should have preferred to resign...
...established with the rigorous religious restrictions of seventeenth century New England, and got its first large gift from a young minister--John Harvard--in 1638. But liberalism clashed with orthodoxy even at its inception. This time liberalism lost out. The college's first president, Henry Dunster, was forced to resign because of his doubts as to the validity of infant baptism. Cotton Mather, a later president wrote of him, "he fell into the briers of Antipacdobaptism...