Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since that time, Alexander has written Font asking him to resign from the Army because of alleged overuse of the telephone and incompetence in performing duties. Instead, Font has chosen to sever himself from the Army through elective discharge, the difference being that the latter would provide him with about $1700 in back pay and an honorable discharge...
...Correspondent Dean Fischer. Hoover's testiness led to 26 agents and clerks being ordered last fall to withdraw from college courses where professors had questioned Hoover's methods and techniques. Then in January it was discovered that one of them, Special Agent John Shaw, was forced to resign from the FBI and blacklisted by Hoover for writing a private letter to a college professor that was mildly critical of Hoover and the bureau...
...Peace Clerks. There have been increasing suggestions that, at age 76, Hoover should resign. He has been criticized for making the FBI too much a lengthened shadow of his own philosophy. Though the critics aim chiefly at Hoover, the FBI's image suffers as well. It was discovered that Hoover keeps a fleet of armored limousines around the country that outnumbers the presidential limousines. Documents stolen by radical activists from the Media, Pa., FBI office outlined the agency's use of undercover informers; one memorandum encouraged local agents to exacerbate "the paranoia endemic in [New Left] circles that...
Subsequently, an organization identifying itself as the Cuban Secret Government claimed responsibility for the bombing and sent letters to the health committee's sponsors, ordering them to resign, or else face further violent actions...
...falsehoods." Would he, despite the charges, run for re-election next fall? Alioto, noting that he had been "not just a full-time mayor but an overtime mayor as well," avoided a straight answer, but let his guard down enough to tell reporters that he had no plans "to resign over this filthy business in Seattle...