Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Amnesty. When John Lewis set up his C.I.O., the defection nearly broke Green's heart, partly for sentimental, personal reasons: Lewis forced Green to resign from his beloved U.M.W...
What had touched off the rioting? Partly it began because in illiterate Iraq, elections rigged by the government in power are all too common. Last July, a few months after negotiating a new, generous 50-50 split of oil revenues with the I.P.C., Nuri El Said had to resign the premiership. A "caretaker government" was supposed to ensure the fairness of elections, but the four parties aligned against Nuri are far from satisfied that his caretakers are any better than he himself...
Francis X. Mancuso, former general sessions judge, crisply admitted to his longtime acquaintance with Costello and Luchese. His suave self-assurance unshaken, Mancuso also admitted that he had decided not to run again for leadership of an East Harlem assembly district after two local hoodlums had "advised" him to resign...
...campus promptly erupted with protests, and nine out of ten members of the theological faculty threatened to resign unless the regents reversed their decision. The regents replied that Tennessee requires segregation, that it would be flouting the state law to admit Negroes. But the nine, led by Dean Francis Brown, refused to be mollified, and one of them did pull out. "The position taken," said the rebels, "seems to us untenable in the light of Christian ethics...
...students, traditionally one of the most active political groups in Argentina, which broke out six weeks ago because the government made them join a Peron front organization. In 1946, when Peron came into power, all Argentine university professors were forced to join a similar organization, causing 1600 to resign...