Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more than a year ago and is generally considered the front runner with an estimated 100 votes pledged to him. Burton played a key role in early 1975 in thwarting a move to oust Wayne Hays from his chairmanship of the House Administration Committee. When Hays was forced to resign after the disclosure that he kept bosomy Elizabeth Ray on the Government payroll. Burton lost some support. Though Burton insists, "Tip and I will work very well together," the two men are often at odds; twice, Burton has challenged O'Neill to a fist fight...
...lackluster speaking style. If successful, Griffin would become the G.O.P.'s highest elected officeholder and, like the party's national chairman, an important articulator of Republican policy. As it happens, the present G.O.P. chairman, Mary Louise Smith, an Iowa housewife, announced last week that she would resign. That sets the stage for a battle royal between conservatives and moderates for control of the party's machinery...
...could feel the tension more directly than the President-elect. He had fought segregation within the congregation, but he was reluctant to quit the church in which he had worshiped all his life. Just before the election, he insisted: "I can't resign from the human race because there's discrimination, and I don't intend to resign from my own church because there's discrimination." But Georgia Congressman Andrew Young, Carter's closest black adviser, said that if Clennon King were not attempting to integrate the church, "I would have...
...Republican National Chairman and risk a damaging intraparty bloodbath or to settle for someone acceptable to other factions. The post is now held by lowan Mary Louise Smith, who was selected by Gerald Ford after he became President in 1974. But she is expected to follow tradition and resign voluntarily, probably at next month's executive committee meeting. Her successor would then be named at the full Republican National Committee meeting scheduled for January...
...Minnesota, where politics is supposed to be as clear as the trout streams, the deal seemed clouded with back room smoke. Soon, two-term Governor Wendell Anderson, 43, will resign. His successor, Lieutenant Governor Rudy Perpich, 48, will then appoint Anderson to the Senate seat being vacated by Vice President-elect Walter Mondale...