Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...paper's future depends upon whether one of the publishers-millionaire backer Richard H. Missner or Ray Riepen, part-owner of Radio Station WBCN-manages to buy the other out. Most of the staff has pledged to resign unless Missner gains full control...
...this happens too in military wars, the personal careers of leaders are involved in the policies they can accept and the decisions they can make. It may be that many, many more university presidents are going to discover what Lyndon Johnson did, that governments cannot reverse themselves. Governments resign, and let successor governments reverse themselves...
...organization in 1950. Gordon promoted the idea of starting Midas Muffler Shops -franchised retail outlets with specialists in trim uniforms. The Midas idea caught on quickly, and after sales hit $42 million in 1967-much of it from the muffler shops-Gordon laid down an ultimatum: he would resign if his father did not hand over the presidency. Reluctantly, Nate assented and stepped up to the chairmanship...
...acidulous FBI chief has maintained a low profile. President Nixon, too, has been extremely careful in his statements. He termed the criticism of Hoover "unfair and malicious" without commenting on the specific charges. He also noted that the attacks on Hoover would not prompt the FBI director to resign. Rather, said Nixon, they "would have the opposite effect." In any event, he added, "it would be unfortunate to allow a man after 50 years to go out under a cloud, maligned...
...secret slowly rippled out to a widening circle of friends and confidants; eventually many in the parish knew but, amazingly, kept quiet. Only in recent months, apparently, did San Francisco's Archbishop Joseph McGucken get wind of the rumors. He asked Duryea to resign and "disappear quietly." Duryea refused. Last week the Archbishop announced that Duryea had been automatically excommunicated because of his marriage and has been relieved of all his priestly functions...