Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...alliances with the smaller parties, particularly with the 14-seat Federal Party, which represents the Tamil-speaking minority who work the island's tea plantations. Thousands of leftists swarmed in the road outside Temple Trees, the Prime Minister's official residence, shouting, "Victory!" and "Don't resign!" At the insistence of her Marxist Cabinet ministers, the buxom Prime Minister stoutly clung to power, even after Governor General William Gopallawa asked her to quit. But at last she caved in, and victory went to Dudley Senanayake after midnight of the third day. Wreathed in smiles, he called...
Henry David Aiken, Professor of Philosophy, announced yesterday that he has accepted an appointment as professor of Philosophy and the History of Ideas at Brandeis University. He has sent a letter to President Pusey indicating his intention to resign after July...
From the moment last fall when Secretary of the Treasury Douglas Dillon signified his intention to resign, President Johnson has been after Donald C. Cook, 55, president of the American Electric Power Co. A former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Cook is a close friend; during last year's presidential campaign headed the Citizens for Johnson and Humphrey organization. But Cook decided that he did not want to become Treasury Secretary; he had already spent 16 years in public service, and he figured that was enough. There were other explanations for his reluctance: his pen sion would...
...that if he did not punish the offenders, the regents would do so. Kerr thought that left him too little room to maneuver. He and the able new head of the Berkeley campus, Acting Chancellor Martin Meyerson, debated a bit, then told Carter that they both intended to resign...
Martin Meyerson, Chancellor of the University of California's Berkeley Campus, indicated in a telephone interview yesterday that unless the Berkeley faculty and the Board of Regents adopt "a series of suggestions concerning administrative policy" he will once again resign...