Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reference letters to help offset the stigma of being an ex-FBI man at 25. The third refused to help Carter; instead, he told his superiors about his friends' action, which also violates the FBI code. The upshot was that all three-including the informer-were pressed to resign because none had reported Carter's original indiscretion...
Weldon James, an associate editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, made sure that his readers knew exactly how he felt. "I quit," he wrote in a signed editorial published last week. "I resign." He and his paper, he went on to explain, had come to a parting of the ways over Viet Nam. "The Courier-Journal is no appeaser," he wrote, "no advocate of U.S. withdrawal, but it does not speak with the sharpness I believe the continuing crisis demands...
...Combat, have joined in attacks on the government. Said the liberal newspaper Le Monde: "We are stupefied by such a decision, stupefied by the grave blow it strikes against freedom of expression." France's 23-man Board of Censors, which had approved the film, last week threatened to resign. The "Manifesto 1789," signed by French leaders in all walks of life, protested "against the formal attack on liberty of expression" that the ban signaled to them. The French film industry may well, out of spite, make Suzanne the nation's sole entry next month in the Cannes film...
...Alonzo S. Yerby, hospital commissioner of New York City, will resign his poet to accept a chair in Health Services Administration at the School of Public Health...
...Cardin had named no Cabinet names, his accusations put all of Diefenbaker's former Ministers under suspicion of hanky-panky. After a tea party for parliamentary wives, former Tory Defense Minister Douglas Harkness stormed into the House to demand that Cardin prove his "statements, insinuations and allegations" or resign. "Let him go home to his wife and family and endure what we have to endure," chimed in another Tory, and only some fast political footwork headed off a no-confidence motion that might well have brought down Pearson's minority government on the spot...