Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nobody has the power to fire a candidate once he is nominated by the national convention. If a candidate should resign during the campaign, he may be replaced either by a new convention, or (most likely at this stage) by nomination of his party's national committee...
...coming editor in E. W. Scripps's newspaper chain, dapper young Roy Wilson Howard once got some advice from his boss: "This is a young man's game. By the time you're 40, if you have any ability, you'd better resign and get into something else." By the time his 40th birthday was approaching, Howard had built up the United Press, was business manager of all Scripps papers. But for ambitious Roy Howard, that was still not enough. Marching into E. W.'s office, he said: "I'm following your advice...
...others could even find it, fought corruption. Few men seemed to stay as vigorous with advancing years. But last week. 30 years after he first spoke it, Roy Howard made good his threat to quit. On his 70th birthday next New Year's Day, Howard announced, he will resign as president of the chain's top operating company, E. W. Scripps Co., and a new young team will take over. The members...
Mohammed Naguib hopes to reorganize the league-and thereby the Middle East -under Egyptian leadership. As the Arab League delegates assembled in Cairo last week they were eager for a glimpse of the new strongman. He promptly snowed his hand, told Azzam to resign or be fired. Smiling, tarbooshed Azzam resigned. His successor: British-educated Abdel Khalek Hassouna, 53, onetime Egyptian Foreign Minister...
...news editor of the Journal-American, which had touched off the row, said that he agreed entirely with Alicia Patterson. Editor Canham later pointed out that he had "argued every day for a week" to prevent Wechsler from being kicked off. But Canham did not feel strongly enough to resign as moderator, since he thinks that "the case is not as clear-cut as it might be, and I'm not sure the sponsor does not have some rights." To most newsmen, however, it was clear-cut: a clear-cut example of how not to fight Communism. Wrote...