Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...after World War I and handed it to the Hashemites. Hussein's Cabinet and Queen Zain flatly refused to okay the marriage. Stubbornly, a smitten Hussein threatened to abdicate in favor of his neurotic younger brother Mohammed. The Cabinet preferred even Toni to Mohammed, but still threatened to resign if the marriage went through. Finally Hussein made a concession: his bride would not be Queen, but "shall be called Muna al Hussein [the wish of Hussein], with no title or position." Gratefully, Premier Bahjat Talhouni declared that his soul was filled with admiration for "the partner of your life...
...point before or since last Thursday's action by the grand jury has Fitspatrick been asked to resign. Frequently mentioned in the fall for the Senate seat vacated by President Kennedy, he received an ovation second only to the President's at Kennedy's birthday party Monday night, for which he was co-chairman and a head table guest...
...price fixing not only in heavy equipment, the only field covered in the Government's original conspiracy charges, but in electric motors as well. The new dis closures came from William F. Oswalt, who headed General Electric's motor and generator department until he was forced to resign in March. Oswalt testified that on two occasions he discussed prices with competitors at meetings designed "primarily to establish motor reratings," added that at other times he had discussed prices over the telephone with competitors, including Westinghouse. Oswalt admitted that he did not take subordinates with him to the meetings...
...sharp setback. For weeks Washington has been working feverishly to line up hemisphere support for an emergency meeting of the OAS Foreign Ministers to deal with Castro. But last week Ecuador's Foreign Minister Jose Chiriboga, a strong proponent of collective OAS punitive action, was forced to resign under pressure from President Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra, who is busily courting Castro these days...
...Still, the County Medical Society let him in. Then a storm blew up over an unrelated matter: Dr. O'Rourke's Quaker-pacifist wife refused, on grounds of conscience, to pledge allegiance to the flag. Dr. O'Rourke figured that he had better offer to resign...