Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...knew of some 1,000 dues-paying party members, though "not all of them were genuine, hard-bitten Communists. I am convinced that most of them would resign if they were not afraid-afraid of being vilified and smeared by the party and its agents." But genuine or not, says Mrs. Dodd, they serve the Communist conspiracy and should therefore be dismissed...
...Scrymgeour-Wedderburn, Conservative M.P. for Western Ren few and Under Secretary of State for Scotland. After 2½ centuries of collecting scraps of evidence, the Scrymgeours were now ready to lay claim to the Dudhope viscountcy, but hesitated to do so because Henry Scrymgeour-Wedderburn did not wish to resign his parliamentary job. In the 1945 Labor landslide, Scrymgeour-Wedderburn lost his seat, and the family presented its case...
...days are behind us, new urgencies press upon us, but ordinary men and ordinary women using free institutions can do extraordinary things. It's just that we can't afford the luxury of a Tory government. The most patriotic thing Churchill can do is to resign next week...
Last week, as 72-year-old Mossadegh was redesignated Premier by the newly elected Majlis (he had to resign formally and then be reappointed), the "but" kept trailing after him. The Majlis had overwhelmingly voted him in, but only after electing an anti-Mossadegh speaker. The 57-member Senate concurred, 14 to 1, but only because the majority present in the half-empty chamber sat on its hands during the balloting. The young Shah pulled wires to get Mossadegh back in, but lectured him, during a private luncheon, on the urgent need for restoring economic order. The people supported...
...Malayan-Chinese Association in 1949 to provide Malaya's Chinese with a spiritual alternative to Marxism. At first, the association stuck to practical philanthropy: it forked out $650,000 to help resettle Chinese squatters moved out of bandit-infested jungles. But Tan was not satisfied. He threatened to resign unless the association backed his political program, and he got his way. Henceforth the M.C.A. will be a hard-hitting political party...