Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President could send for White and tell him he had changed his mind and that he desired White to resign and not serve...
...G.O.P. senators, pained at such blunt tactics against one of their own, wavered and weasled and, after an unhappy, three-hour meeting last week, reached a face-saving compromise: Wicks would be allowed to resign sometime before the start of the next regular session Jan. 6. Wicks continued to preside as the senate passed a legislative reapportionment bill and moved toward adjournment; not a word was said on the floor about his removal...
...face of this challenge, Tom Dewey laid down an ultimatum: if Wicks did not resign before adjournment, Dewey would call the legislature back into special session and start impeachment proceedings. At this, Wicks gave in, although still claiming that his honor stood undimmed. He was resigning, he said, because "I was going on vacation and I felt I didn't want to have the responsibilities of the offices . . ." Said Dewey: ". . . I asked Senator Wicks to resign. He has now done so, and the resignation speaks for itself...
Representative Edmund J. Donlan of West Roxbury has demanded that Mark A. DeWolfe Howe '28, professor of Law, resign from the Law School so that the public will know "it is not Harvard, but he who advocates civil disobedience...
Donlan made his attack after Howa's debate with Samuel P. Sears concerning the use of the Fifth Amendment. He claimed that if Howe doesn't resign, "Harvard should publicly disavow his utterances...