Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...taking in the controller's office and by inspectors of departments that supervise buildings, markets, water supply, gas and electricity. Trying to hold onto the support of reform Democrats, led by former Governor Herbert Lehman and Eleanor Roosevelt, Wagner last winter demanded that Tammany Boss Carmine De Sapio resign. Emboldened by the applause he got for that move, Wagner decided to drop his machine-honed running mates and pick his own candidates for deputy mayor and controller. That lost him the support of two borough bosses far more powerful than De Sapio: Brooklyn's Joseph Sharkey...
...news of the private meeting. Argentina's anti-Castro armed forces went up like land mines. The three service secretaries threatened to resign. Frondizi lamely explained that if Kennedy's man Goodwin could talk to Guevara, then he, as President of Argentina, could see him, too, couldn't he? Over TV, he emphasized that his government was Christian, democratic, and committed to the West. Two nights later, he was on TV again saying that Castro "employs procedures which we Argentines reject categorically...
...week's end, the brass was still rumbling noisily. And Frondizi's Foreign Minister Adolfo Múgica. who originally leaked the news of the Frondizi-Guevara téte a téte, was asked to resign...
...shocking statement, full of political doubletalk." When Macmillan rose magisterially to protest, Fell yelled, "No! I can be told to sit down by Mr. Speaker, but I cannot be told to sit down by the Prime Minister," went on to call Macmillan a "national disaster" and urge him to resign...
...five-man executive committee, composed of President Townsend and four directors from outside the ranks of Chrysler management, collectively took over the duties of Colbert's post as chief executive officer. Pittsburgh's personable, plain-spoken George H. Love, 63, who heads the new committee, agreed to resign as chairman of the M. A. Hanna Co. and as a member of the executive committee of National Steel Corp. (He will remain chairman of Pittsburgh's Consolidation Coal Co.) For Chrysler, this was clearly the beginning of the transition from one-man rule to the committee management system...