Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mopping provided photographers with readymade man-in-agony pictures), Wagner announced his choices. He dumped Gerosa, picked able Deputy Mayor Paul R. Screvane, 46, to run as city council president, downrated Brooklyn Haberdasher Stark to controller. The move took Stark out of the line of succession should the mayor resign for a federal appointment. Cried Brooklyn Boss Joseph T. Sharkey, white-faced with anger: "I think the Jewish people in this town might feel they were trying to get rid of Abe and make it impossible for a Jew to become mayor...
...refused to go. In a move unprecedented in Canadian history, suave, scholarly James Coyne, 50, governor of the Bank of Canada and manager of the country's money supply for 6½ years, announced that "the Minister of Finance on behalf of the government requested that I resign at once...
Coyne's position is somewhat analagous to the chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board, in a government job that is meant to be independent enough to act as a check on injudicious political tampering with finances. "Under such circumstances," he said, "I cannot and will not resign quietly." As Coyne told the story, he was first ordered to resign because the Cabinet was "upset" over the $25,000 pension unanimously voted him by the bank's board of directors 16 months ago. Obviously, said Coyne, this was not the reason, since the Cabinet waited so long...
When fourth President Wilbur K. Jordan announced in Spring, 1959, his intention to resign, the sidewalk property whispered that Radcliffe might never have another president. Late in May a giggle of cartoonists filled the front pages of the CRIMSON with their speculations about Jordan's successor. They imagined everything from a specially adapted Univac to a self-prepared Harvard undergraduate. They couldn't have been more wrong...
...twenty-five polled by the CRIMSON extolled Roosevelt; the University listened and then supported Hoover 3-2 in the annual straw vote. Three weeks later the country went along with the professors. In post-election analysis, Arthur N. Holcombe '06, professor of Government, decided that Herbert Hoover ought to resign before March 4--as so many people were urging--since "Roosevelt could not get a new Congress with which to work, and therefore it would be useless." The CRIMSON had already decided that it made little difference to the country who was elected; the Advocate, too, commenting on the small...