Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thus Burke ought to resign his position with the HSA. And the Harvard Student Agencies, if they are to receive more than the execrations of the community, deserve closer guidance. The University ought to modify the charter of the Agencies so that they are directed by a professional manager employed in that capacity by the University, not by the HSA. A review committee with the power to veto any HSA activity ought to be appointed by the Administrative Board. Professors from the Business School seem to be the logical choice for members of this committee; in any case its members...
...insistent are these rumors that at a Rusk press conference two weeks ago a newsman bluntly asked him whether, in view of reports that the President had already picked his successor, he intended to resign. Replied Rusk, outwardly unruffled: "A Cabinet officer serves at the pleasure of the President." He had. he added calmly, "no plans" to resign...
...after inconclusive elections last year, sat stiffly in the ornate Salón Blanco of Lima's presidential palace listening to the complaints of two fellow junta members, Air Force Major General Pedro Vargas Prada and Vice Admiral Francisco Torres Matos. The midnight callers gave him an ultimatum: resign or be driven out. Replied Pérez Godoy: "I refuse to leave. It is too late now to continue this conversation. I am going to retire...
...step ahead of the British police. Rumors persisted that the pair had been warned by a government official that the heat was on, and in 1955 a Labor M.P. rose in the House of Commons to accuse Philby of being the tipster. Admitting that Philby had been asked to resign from the Foreign Office because of his friendship with Burgess, Harold Macmillan, then Foreign Secretary, otherwise completely cleared him of any charge of treason or of being the "socalled 'third man,' if indeed there was one." But despite the official exoneration, doubts remained, which were...
...Life is unpredictable," said Saltonstall in his laconic way. "In sailing terms, we sometimes come about and start on a new tack, or as in this case, we jibe over sharply to an entirely different course. With the greatest reluctance, I plan to resign as principal of Exeter at the end of the school year...