Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...declared, "but never before has it reached such epidemic proportions . . . In little more than twelve months of this year and last, 117 persons in the Bureau of Internal Revenue alone were fired for dishonesty or other improper activities." That number does not include those who were allowed to resign "because of ill health." Laughter rolled through the crowd of 11,000 and, for the only time during the speech, Ike smiled...
Tearful Assemblymen. The next day, 600 of Rhee's supporters besieged the Assembly, caught 80 anti-Rhee members inside and demanded that they resign or else. For five hours and 15 minutes, the legislators huddled in fear, while Rhee's police stood by. Finally Lee Bum Suk showed up, and ordered his men to shove back the demonstrators and let the legislators leave. Completely intimidated, some walked out with tears in their eyes...
Under ordinary circumstances, an officer who wants to engage in political activities has to resign, retire or be discharged. But the rules were written before the five-star generals and admirals were created in World War II. They have a peculiar status, like a patent of nobility. Ordinary retirement rules do not apply. They are assumed to be on active duty for life, and they can draw full pay for life...
...would be retired on three-quarters pay, and he could engage in politics. Eisenhower, however, has not yet reached compulsory retirement age. He has given up his Army pay, but if he is defeated for the presidency, he can ask that his pay start again. Either man could resign, and thereby lose his pay for life...
...Sewanee, Tenn., eight faculty members of the University of the South (including the dean and five members of the Theological School faculty, the university chaplain and the head of the college religion department) threatened to resign over their trustees' decision not to admit Negro seminarians. The trustees, representing 22 Southern Protestant Episcopal dioceses, argued that admission of Negroes would violate a Tennessee law requiring racial segregation in schools. The faculty members promised to give the trustees until June 1953 to reconsider, before their resignations took effect. The trustees' position, they said, is "untenable in the light of Christian...