Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite Lopsided Majorities. In the flush of their victory, Republicans were quick to counterattack. Representative Bob Wilson, chairman of the House Republican Campaign Committee, fired off a telegram to the White House, suggesting that Robert Weaver be named to succeed Abraham Ribicoff, who plans to resign as Health, Education and Welfare Secretary to run for the Senate. Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen gleefully assured a press conference that if Weaver were named to the HEW post, "not a single Republican vote" would be cast against...
...obtain complete control of the manmade fiber industry in this country in order to participate in a European fibers cartel," predicted that if the merger went through, "every important chemical company in Britain will ultimately succumb." Last week, Fisons' board accepted Wormald's month-old offer to resign. The split, insisted all hands, was in no way influenced by a demand from I.C.I, that Fisons disavow "Mr. Wormald's views...
...bitter debate that followed, Mansfield threatened to resign if Johnson was not elected, and on that personal basis the motion was carried. But 17 Democrats voted against it- and Lyndon Johnson knows a slap in the face when he feels one. Since then he has attended Democratic conferences with decreasing frequency, presided only long enough to call the meetings to order and turn the gavel over to Mansfield. Says a Democratic Senator of Lyndon's legislative role: "As Mansfield's grip tightens, Lyndon is more and more out of it." But if L.BJ.'s Senate influence...
Wallison explained that his opponent had resigned from the council last year as a protest against HYRC's failure to elect Howard J. Phillips '62 to the delegation. "That's not true," Williams protested. "I tried to resign but no one would accept my resignation...
...political activity, so long as their criticism does not turn to blind apolitical protest, and so long as they recognize that their aims are those of a part of the political arena, the march is a step forward. Those who support a liberalization of American policies need not resign the function of criticism to those of the right; they need not be so timid that they only look on and applaud with silence...