Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Singer Pearl Bailey was displeased with her accompanist. When he tried to resign, saying "I probably don't know any songs you know," she shrugged, "Mr. President, anything you play, I know-however old." But when he broke into a stilted Home on the Range, she withered him with "I came here to sing a song, not to ride a horse." Finally, Pearlie Mae and President Richard Nixon harmonized. With 41 Governors and guests at the White House dinner last week, they chorused My Wild Irish Rose and God Bless America...
Goodenough, who announced with her husband two weeks ago that they were resigning as co-masters, said they told Bok of their intent to resign over two months ago, but that no search for replacements had begun until this week...
Harvard likes to operate quietly and settle its fights in the family, without any public outcry. So it was quite a surprise this week when Jean H. Slingerland, assistant director of Expository Writing, said she may resign because of the Faculty Council's apparently routine rejection of a proposed change in the Expos program...
What can now be done by the people of the U.S. to clear up this intolerable mess? First the massive campaign to impeach and convict Nixon of high crimes and misdemeanors must be increased until he is forced to resign or driven from public office. Second, a commission of outstanding citizens should be appointed by the Congress which is to be elected in November 1974, to thoroughly investigate and expose the crimes committed by Nixon's four immediate predecessors...
...dispute over state control of cable television. Last week, after a disagreement over fiscal policy, he announced that he would no longer serve as Rumor's Treasury Minister. La Malfa's Republicans followed him out of the coalition, and Rumor had no choice but to resign...