Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...threatening to resign...
Little Lake's teachers supported this academic transformation-but C.T.A. charges that Stanley and the school board neglected "human relations" in the process. Sample beefs: Stanley requested administrators to pinpoint the "worst teacher" in the district, threatened to cut poor teachers' salaries if they did not resign. To combat such "intolerable personnel practices," C.T.A. unleashed the sanction...
Cobb invited them into his station wagon for a chat and, after they confronted him with curious similarities in the two lives, finally said with the hapless resignation of a man awakened from a beautiful dream: "Let's stop kidding around, fellows. You know the truth." Soon he issued a public statement: "I hold a deep affection for my legal wife and adopted son. I hold a deep affection for the mother of my two young natural sons. I intend to resign." He quit both the senatorial race and the state chairmanship...
...party slips still farther in three by-elections scheduled for fall, Macmillan may be forced to resign, though few top Tories are now betting on his early retirement. After Parliament recesses this week, Macmillan will leave for Yorkshire's grouse moors. There, as his foes know well, a few days of nonpolitical bloodletting usually work wonders for Uncle Harold...
Long Silence. In 1933, along with Novelist Heinrich Mann, she was forced to resign from the academy for having signed a plea against the election of the Nazis to national office. In time, Germany's new masters let it be known that she was not to be exhibited again. With that, there descended upon her, as she put it, a long "silence." In 1940 Dr. Kollwitz died, and two years later, her grandson-another Peter-was killed on the Russian front. Her house in Berlin was bombed out, and so was the one she moved to in Nordhausen. Finally...