Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After Democrat Yorty saw the first headlines, he topped his first story with a demand that Wilson resign. Said he: "We cannot afford to have the Defense Department headed by a defeatist Secretary whose vision is so circumscribed by dollars, profits, and grossly exaggerated economic strain...
Actually, the only protest came from Dartmouth. The Daily Dartmouth ran an editorial protesting Big Three Snobbery, terming baseball "a game that little boys can play," and calling for President John Sloan Dickey to resign from the Ivy League because of its high pressure athletic policies. The Indians' Green Key joined in, blasting the weekend as organized mid-Western "rah-rah collegiatism...
...Health Centers, council directors turned the committee down, candidly explained that the Catholic agencies objected. But last week, after a long and bitter debate, an opposition slate of directors pledged to admit Planned Parenthood was elected 317 to 259. The 53 Catholic agencies duly announced that they will resign if Planned Parenthood is actually admitted. Said a Catholic spokesman: "The primary reason for the existence and a substantial part of the program of the Planned Parenthood group are to promote the gravely immoral practice of artificial birth control." The Catholic agencies would cooperate with the other 338, they said...
...petition. Somehow this got into the papers. This was a legislative year in Kansas, the year in which a state-supported college cannot afford to incur the displeasure of the legislators. When he heard of the petition, the Secretary of the State Board of Regents told Tandy he should resign in twenty-four hours or else be fired. Tandy held firm. The Emporia faculty, under Jacobs' urging, voted to support "any action the administration of the college might take against Tandy"--even though none had yet been taken. The threat to the College's public relations was clearly the first...
...city policeman in the afternoon, and at night he is a bouncer in a mixed nightclub. His police beat is in a white section, and when some white people objected, his superior suggested that he ask for a transfer, but he quietly replied that he would rather resign from the force. After he goes off duty each evening, he reports for work at the China Pheasant. By closing time (5 a.m.), Humes has usually lifted at least one drunk (white or colored) well above the floor and carried him into the street. Humes says he does not often wonder whether...