Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next day, when the House gathered again, Churchill was greeted with Laborite cries of "Resign! Resign!" Grinning, the old warrior, whose Conservatives had worked the same trick on a Labor government more than once in the past, replied: "I think we shall all agree that it seems to have been a rather sharp piece of work." But resign he would not, and need not, on so inconsequential an issue, though it was the first time the government had been defeated in this Parliament...
...cheers, but he seemed surprised and hurt when his own party summoned him on the carpet. "I had by no means the intention," he recanted, "of accusing political persons of the People's Party . . . of uncertain or unpatriotic attitudes." But it was too late. The party made Gruber resign the Foreign Ministry, which he has held since war's end. His probable successor: former Chancellor Figl, Austria's most beloved politician...
...group didn't ask Mulvihill to resign, but forced the union's board of directors to call an election for the presidency. Instead of running for the job themselves, they put up Burr Hall janitor Elwyn Wyman for the top position and Mrs. Helen Maynard, a maid in Eliot House, for the vice-presidency. Mulvihill suddenly withdrew from the race, and Wyman was elected. But the pace proved too tough, and Wyman resigned after only a month in office. No one knew exactly...
...Manhattan last week, New York State Superintendent of Insurance Alfred J. Bohlinger released an unusual announcement: Thomas Ignatius Parkinson, 71, boss for the last 26 years of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, third largest insurance company in the U.S. (after Metropolitan Life and Prudential), would shortly resign. Bohlinger implied that he had forced the resignation...
...leading spokesman, was the implication that Parkinson was being forced out of his $100,000-a-year job under fire. Parkinson lost no time correcting that impression. Said he: "I am proud of all my record with the Equitable, and of [its] growth under my direction ... I have not resigned, and will not resign...