Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since 1959, Jaguaribe served as president of a steel company of joint public and private ownership. The military coup of 1964 forced him to resign last June...
...sway beyond the maximum four-year term of any one Governor. Last month Farris Bryant was followed into the Statehouse by Haydon Burns, who charged during the campaign that there were an unspecified number of "pinks and Communists on the campuses," and warned that "they would be wise to resign." Five days before the end of his term, however, Bryant named the first nine regents. Burns refused to accept them, then announced that he would contest in the State Supreme Court the law establishing what Bryant had sometimes called "my" regents. Ignoring the legal assault, the regents last week proposed...
...Crisis an Hour." He publicly announced that the long-predicted resignations of four White House aides appointed by John Kennedy had at last occurred. P. Kenneth O'Donnell and David Powers, two of Kennedy's closest friends, quit, as did Dr. Janet Travell, J.F.K.'s first White House physician, and Myer Feldman, his counsel. Although Johnson did not acknowlege it last week, Larry O'Brien, Kennedy's trusted aide on Capitol Hill, was set to resign as soon as Johnson's legislative proposals are launched...
...congressional elections, Fulbright launched out on one of his lectures about the evils of party divisions between the White House and Congress. To prevent a deadlocked Government, he suggested that if Republicans seized Congress, Harry Truman really ought to appoint Republican Arthur Vandenberg Secretary of State, then resign himself and let Vandenberg succeed to the presidency (the vice-presidency was vacant, and in those days the Secretary of State was still next in line). The G.O.P. did win, and after the election the reporter asked Fulbright if he still felt the same way. Sure, he said. "That overeducated Oxford s.o.b...
...Bliss." Last week Barry strode onto the sunny patio of his Phoenix home to name Ray Bliss. Grimly Goldwater explained that at this week's meeting of the Republican National Committee in Chicago Burch could not expect the resounding vote of confidence he needed, and he would therefore resign to avoid a "long and divisive" intraparty fight. Added Barry: "I have always sought for unity...