Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bishop Barnes, who liked to call himself "the bold, bad bishop," ignored this thinly veiled summons to resign. The archbishop, who has only limited power over British bishops, did not attempt to remove him. But orthodox churchmen kept tossing brickbats in Bishop Barnes's direction, and at church convocations he took to vesting himself outside the regular bishops' robing room, so warm was the disapproval of his colleagues...
When the commission called for the church officers to resign, the congregation gave the officers a vote of confidence. Said Journalism Professor Phillips Russell: "The report gives the impression (and this is said with due reverence) that if Jesus Christ were found occupying the pulpit here. He might be ousted on the ground that, although a Christian, He could not be called a Presbyterian...
Last week the presbytery commissioners demanded that Charles Jones resign or be removed. Pastor Jones, quiet but adamant ("The fundamentals of Christianity are not complicated"), indicated that he would do no such thing...
...another Dawson pal whom the Senate had refused to reconfirm as an RFC director (TIME, Dec. 24, 1951). Worst of all was Whitehair's arrogance. He told one admiral: "When you come in here to see me, bring a notebook with you." Navy Secretary Dan Kimball intended to resign a year ago, but stayed on because he feared Truman would give Whitehair...
Provost Paul H. Buck yesterday stated that he will resign July 1 to resume his professorship of History. At the same time, it became a virtual certainty that the new President of Harvard would be selected before Commencement, probably by April...