Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...however, Miller asked Lautner to let him resign from the force: he had been suspected of Communist activity, had been shunted to a harmless police post near Prospect Park. Brooklyn, and was afraid his wife was about to betray him. Lautner refused to let him quit: if New York's Communist-dominated American Labor Party gained more political power. Miller might well have become police commissioner. The Communist lieutenant accepted the verdict, stayed faithfully on duty until the department finally gathered enough solid evidence to cite him for trial. But Miller disappeared in a flash after that, and last...
...stalemate. The White House never submitted Edelman's name to the Senate; Reuther stubbornly refused to submit any other name to Durkin; Durkin held off submitting other names to the White House. The awkward silence dragged on for months, while rumors drifted about that Durkin was ready to resign in disgust...
Then came Chamberlain's appeasement of Mussolini. Salisbury urged Eden to resign in protest against "appeasement," and when Eden did, Salisbury followed. It was Eden's finest hour, but with one eye on the future, the handsome Foreign Secretary reiterated his loyalty to the Tory Party. Bobbety, as a Cecil feeling no need to protest his Tory loyalty, bluntly told the House of Commons that Chamberlain's policy was "a surrender to blackmail." After Munich, and Chamberlain's fatuous promise of "peace with honor," Salisbury demanded ". . . Where is honor?" The right policy, he said, was "rearm...
...Fired Josiah Marvel Jr. and Raymond S. McKeough, Truman-appointed members of the International Claims Commission, which handles claims of U.S. investors whose property has been nationalized by foreign governments. Marvel and McKeough, who had refused to resign their $15,000-a-year jobs after the election, had settled only 132 claims in more than three years, still had 1,000 pending...
...Demorest, Ga. is probably the most tenacious. Since he first accepted a $500-a-month gift from an educational foundation started by antiSemitic, anti-Negro onetime Judge George Armstrong of Fort Worth, Texas (TIME, March 12, 1951, et seq.), students and facultymen have demanded again & again that he resign. Last week, as the academic year closed, President Walter was in the same old cauldron again...