Word: resignations
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Senate Sacrifice. When Lodge ran for the Senate in 1936, he was the only Republican to displace an incumbent Democrat in that F.D.R. landslide year. In 1944, he became the first Senator since the Civil War to resign his seat for active combat, joining an armored corps in Europe as a major. Lodge returned to the Senate after the war more internationalist than ever, led the fight in pushing through the Marshall plan and NATO over the opposition of conservative Republicans...
...decree takes effect, the term of curial office will in most cases be limited to five years instead of the traditional lifetime appointments. And to prevent the kind of friction between Pontiff and Curia that plagued Pope John, henceforth all cardinals heading curial offices and congregations (administrative divisions) must resign when a Pope dies, allowing the incoming Pontiff to choose a staff to his liking. Ending the present system, which allows some clerics to make the Curia their entire career, the Pope insists that all future congregation members must have some pastoral experience and should be drawn from all parts...
...most important new appointment will be a cardinal to fill the upgraded post of Secretary of State-or Papal Secretary, as it will now be called. The present Secretary of State, Cardinal Cicognani, 84, is soon expected to resign. His successor will be a kind of Vatican Prime Minister, with new responsibility to coordinate Curia affairs and to summon cardinals to Cabinet-style meetings. The Pope also set up an office to supervise the four departments that handle the Vatican's vast financial interests...
...Damning Indictment," the London Financial Times argued for what it called "the honorable tradition that whenever a disaster occurs the man in command should go." Not so, snapped Sir Miles Thomas, who had been head of BOAC when the early Comet jet airliners were crashing. "I wouldn't resign," said he. "I'd see it through and make sure everything possible was done to see that it never happened again." A letter from former Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, who tapped Robens for the N.C.B. job in 1961, told "Dear Alf" that "the test comes when things go badly...
Sure, growing up is painful. It always has been. But you don't solve the problems of growing up by turning your back on them and walking away. It doesn't take too much courage to resign from the human race. It takes courage to learn to live with...