Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...retrospect, Murphy feels that at one point during his 40-year career he should have resigned in public protest. That was in the summer of 1948 when the Russians had sealed off Berlin and Murphy, who was serving as civilian political adviser to Military Governor Lucius Clay, was summoned with his boss to Washington to discuss the blockade. It consisted at that time of a wooden pole suspended across the highway at Helmstedt-and removable, Murphy was convinced, by a token show of force. The decision to launch the Berlin airlift seemed to him a serious mistake. The dramatic success...
Freund also pointed out that a Speaker might be reluctant to resign and assume an office he might be filling for only a short time...
...Viet Nam in any respect? Has he done us any good?" The reply: "When a man is in foreign service as ambassador he has to carry out instructions from the Secretary of State and the President. He is not in a position to speak independently, except when he resigns. So he is either a part of what is going on, or, if he does not want to be part of it, his only alternative is to resign and to come back and say what is wrong. He hasn't resigned and come back to say what he thinks...
Stopping over in Paris, the royal party learned that the government would resign if they went on to Spain. The plane flew home instead. Juliana's unceremonious return led many Dutchmen to believe that the Queen would bow before the wave of hostility against the royal family and abdicate the throne. But Juliana could scarcely step down...
...recommended resign for the Boylston St. underpass may be the best one possible; but the best is often bad enough. For those who use the banks of the Charles for recreation or find the area attractive, it is very bad indeed. Although the proposed "extended-portal" structure would preserve Weld Boat House, it would sprawl over much of the riverbank and make reaching the remainder difficult. Yet the alternative--a conventional underpass bisecting the Boat House and taking even more land--is worse. And since it might cost $900,000 less to build, the conventional underpass may have the better...