Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chaplain was also having an affair with Mrs. Curran. "After agonizing over it for two days, I decided he'd have to be reported," she told the court-martial. Mrs. Gudbranson confessed to her husband, who informed the base executive officer. Naval authorities tried to persuade Jensen to resign his commission, but he refused, protesting his innocence...
...Maine's Senator Margaret Chase Smith replied: "I'd go straight to Mrs. Truman and apologize. Then I'd go home." Hollywood thought the idea was cute. In 1964's Kisses for My President, Politician Polly Bergen is elected and then, domestically enough, has to resign when her husband, Fred MacMurray, gets her pregnant...
...office (TIME, Feb. 28). Last week, for a change, the archbishop was experiencing ecclesiastical complications. At the annual synod of the Cypriot hierarchy, three bishops invoked a canon law-unused for at least a hundred years-forbidding bishops to hold church and state posts simultaneously. They moved that Makarios resign the presidency...
...university objects to a professor writing in his spare time, but both Yale and Stony Brook have rules against their faculty members secretly serving on other faculties as well. So when Stony Brook learned of Mills' dual loyalties, it reluctantly asked for and got his resignation. At Yale, Provost Charles Taylor sent two administrative assistants to Mills' bachelor apartment with a demand that he resign within 24 hours. After Mills refused, President Kingman Brewster suspended him for a year for "blatant disregard of ethics...
...Humbugs. Faced with a second and closer vote last week on some of the legislation necessary to put that decision into effect, Heath announced that he would resign and dissolve Parliament if the bill were defeated. The Prime Minister very nearly had to make good on that promise. As antiMarket Tory M.P.s defected to the opposition lobby, his government was saved by only eight votes, five of them from the tiny Liberal Party. Labor M.P.s danced up and down shouting "Resign!" and "Out! Out!" Opposition Leader Harold Wilson, who as Prime Minister had sought Common Market membership for Britain...