Word: resignations
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Died. Alexander Meiklejohn, 92, pioneer of progressive education whose views were honored last year with the award of a Presidential Freedom Medal after early decades of rejection, notably in 1923, when he was forced to resign as Amherst College president for scorning standard disciplines in favor of social science and philosophy, and again in 1934, when his Experimental College at Wisconsin University (no grades or exams) was deemed infeasible and disbanded after seven years; of pneumonia; in Berkeley, Calif...
...certain point, the election went as planned. Jagan piled up only 45.8% of the vote; Burnham won 40.5% and stood ready to form a coalition with the third-running United Force Party (12%), headed by Portuguese Businessman Peter d'Aguiar. But then Cheddi simply refused to resign. "The election was fraudulent," he announced. "The British government will have to force me out." Unimpressed, the governor formally appointed Burnham Prime Minister...
...There has been a lot of discussion as to whether J. Edgar Hoover should be asked to resign from the FBI after his recent remarks about Martin Luther King and the Warren Report," wrote Syndicated Columnist Art Buchwald last week. "I can now reveal for the first time why President Johnson can't ask J. Edgar Hoover to resign. The reason is J. Edgar Hoover doesn't exist. He is a mythical person first thought up by the Reader's Digest.'" Buchwald went on to develop his theme: that even the name was a phony, attached...
...Henry Fowler, who last spring quit as the second-ranking Under Secretary. The department's No. 4 man. General Counsel G. D'Andelot Belin, intends to return soon to his Boston law practice. And Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon has reportedly served notice that he intends to resign by next July...
...Enough Negativism." Smylie's own statement came in a speech last week opening a Denver meeting of the Republican Governors' Association. Of the Governors and Governors-elect who attended, virtually all had opposed Goldwater's nomination, and virtually all would like to see Dean Burch resign. As the Governors convened, there were reports that they would adopt a formal oust-Burch resolution...