Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...guilty to Fritchey's other charge, that it had fired Vigil. It said that Vigil originally agreed to turn his office over to his Republican successor (as 67 other holdover U.S. attorneys have done) but changed his mind after he had won the Smaldone case and refused to resign. Then Washington fired...
Private Citizen Harry S. Truman's first reaction was: "I don't recall that such a thing happened. As soon as we found out that White was wrong, we fired him." When records showed White resigned (fifteen months after he took office), was not fired, Truman observed: "People are sometimes fired by being allowed to resign...
Since the FBI's evidence against White was not sufficient to indict him at that time, Hoover spoke of three alternatives Vinson and Clark planned to present to Truman: 1) Fire White without explanation; 2) Ask him to resign without explanation; 3) Allow him to take the new post, while the Attorney General continued the investigation and the Treasury Secretary supervised the appointment of reliable men around White. Truman adopted the last alternative, but White somehow was permitted to surround himself with suspected Communists...
Kiphuth, a 1941 graduate of Yale, will resign his duties as athletic director, history teacher, football and swimming coach at the Hotchkiss School at the end of the current school year...
...father, Robert J. H. Kiphuth, was athletic director at Yale until ill health forced him to resign the extra job and devote full time to his swimming duties...