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Word: resignations (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...waiting in vain for der Alte to step down. Last week he was finally forced to commit himself. In order to form a coalition government between his Christian Democratic Union and Erich Mende's Free Democratic Party. Adenauer reportedly had to promise a written guarantee that he will resign the chancellorship. His distant deadline: summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: Not till '63 | 10/27/1961 | See Source »

...short, it appears that Harvard, ignoring signs, rules, and sensibilities, has extended its pursuit of excellence to the merchandising game. I realize that this is progress, and that the most effective thing I can do is resign myself to it. But before making my final submission to the techniques of mass marketing, I do wish to register this one weak protest. Until recently, I had hoped that my relationship to Harvard was something more than that of consumer of doughnuts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT | 10/14/1961 | See Source »

...such an outcry that the painting was whisked from public view. At the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where on Ladies' Day the Greek statues were draped, the great Thomas Eakins posed a male and female model together and as an upshot of the incident had to resign from the faculty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Shy About the Nude | 10/13/1961 | See Source »

McGeorge Bundy, Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, has joined the exclusive club in Washington, D.C., whose refusal to admit Negroes caused Attorney General Robert Kennedy to resign in protest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bundy Joins D.C. Club Despite Segregation | 10/7/1961 | See Source »

...corporation which, to his knowledge, is interested directly or indirectly in any manner whatsoever in business dealings with the city." City Controller Lawrence E. Gerosa, running as an independent, was less delicate. "The mayor has set one of the worst examples in municipal history," he said. "He should resign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York: Civics Lesson | 10/6/1961 | See Source »

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