Word: resigned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Earlier last night, the Council had asked Fisher to resign, repeating an unofficial request last month by William D. Weeks '49, Council president, and Alfred M. Goodloe '50, chairman of the NSA delegation. Fisher refused, how-ever, on the grounds that his resignation would not help the NSA in any way. He added that if he had been convinced that anything he did regarding NSA had been wrong, he would have resigned...
...Columbia University in New York. He was there two years. He wrote poetry, edited the literary Morningside, and shocked the campus by bringing out a blasphemous, so-called "Profanist" issue in which he wrote a story dealing "objectionably" with the Resurrection. A student committee invited the editor to resign. He left college and went off to Europe...
William D. Weeks '49, President of the Student Council, last night withheld the results of a meeting which was held to decide if Robert C. Fisher '51 should be forced to resign from the National Student Association...
Abolition was also a triumph for Untouchable Dr. Ambedkar. Years ago, Columbia-educated Ambedkar, appointed to an official post by the Gaekwar of Baroda, was overwhelmed by humiliation and forced to resign. "Papers had to be flung to me," he once said of this experience, "and the carpet had to be rolled back lest higher castes stood on the same material...
...down on the job of organizing the unorganized. They were Durkin's (office workers), Abram Flaxer's (federal workers), both left wing, and Samuel Wolchok's unruly department-store workers' union. Murray's denunciation was taken as a demand that the three union presidents resign. Said a surprised Wolchok, who has bitterly fought the Communists but has been unable to control them in his union: "He was not talking about me." But obviously he was. Murray had not only declared war on Reds, he had served notice that he wanted more vigorous union leadership...