Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...country, whose proudest boast is that they "came up the hard way"--through their dogged study and application of the three r's--and they don't mean just reading, 'riting, and 'rithmetic. Anything worth while is worth fighting for and if we lack intestinal fortitude we had better resign ourselves to sitting in Widener and admiring the derring-do of such giants as King Arthur, Walter Lippmann, and Mother Goose...
These were the old days of Harvard-Cambridge relations; President Lowell responded to the altercation by summoning four Cambridge policemen and ordering them to resign. When they refused, the paper reports, he took his demand to the Chief of Police. After complicated legal wranglings, the case died in April when those arrested pleaded nolo contendere. What happens seems to have been a clear infringement of the civil rights of the students involved, but The Crimson records no legal action taken against the police involved...
However, at least two of the men chose to resign. Gray claims that he is getting rid of "Hooverites," yet some agents accuse him of retaining the most hated of Hoover's hard-line policies...
Dean Dunlop announced today that he will resign at the end of the term to become director of the Cost of Living Council in the Nixon Administration...
...attacked rather than turned defensive. When the railroad workers struck, he threatened to seize the railroads. In early 1948, his popularity was at a low ebb. Panicky party strategists declared that if the Democrats did not appease the South, the party would vanish. Some seriously suggested that Truman should resign. Truman responded by proposing an elaborate series of civil rights measures that only further antagonized the South...