Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...margin of 19 votes-282 to 263, with 37 center deputies abstaining-the Chamber rejected Alcide de Gasperi's proposed cabinet and propelled Italy into her worst political crisis since the war. Only once before in 31 years had an Italian Parliament forced a Premier to resign. His name was Luigi Facta, and the man who soon succeeded him was Benito Mussolini...
When a former Methodist churchman named J. B. Matthews made the charge that U.S. Protestant ministers "are the largest single group supporting" Communism in the U.S. (TIME, July 13), he was hit by thunderbolts of protest. They forced him to resign as executive director of Joe McCarthy's Senate subcommittee, and showed clearly that U.S. Protestants trust their clergy. But they threw little light on J. B. Matthews himself. In last week's Christian Century, Editor Paul Hutchinson, who once "knew him well and . . . liked him greatly," writes an account of him, in order to show "what strange...
When the catalogue appeared, the campus finally erupted. To the faculty, the Reese affair was a symbol of everything that angered them about Freeman's and Frasier's highhanded ways. All seven members of the physical education department threatened to resign unless Reese was dropped. The rest of the faculty started an investigation, drew up an 86-page report for the trustees charging Reese with incompetence. Later, the faculty also voted 69 to 10 to declare "no confidence" in President Freeman, and 400 students followed suit. Finally, just at the end of the academic year, the trustees...
...rifle inspection, and for every fault they find, Prew has to pay with K.P., extra laps around the track under full pack, or hours of digging enormous holes in the ground so that jeering noncoms can bury a single newspaper. (In the movie, Captain Holmes is forced to resign for his actions; in the book, he was promoted...
...Courthouse Reporter Sam Giaimo, Allen and Giaimo began to dig deeper into the court. What they found provided the Press with frontpage headlines for weeks, scandalized Cleveland, and started a Bar Association investigation. Last week, as a direct result of the Allen-Giaimo stories, Probate Judge Nelson J. Brewer resigned from the bench and quit the practice of law for good. It was the first time that a Cleveland newspaper had forced a judge to resign...