Word: resigned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other members of the committee are two newly seleted Council members, Robert L. Fischelis '50, of Kirkland House and Philadelphia, and Joseph Rancatore '50, of Lowell House and Lawrence. They were selected under constitutional rules by which runners up succeed election winners when the latter resign...
Asked what he would do if the War Office sent orders contrary to Abdullah's, the man who serves two kings replied: "I am a British subject. I would have no alternative but to resign my command." Last week the British hoped that Glubb would not be forced on to the horns of that dilemma. If the little chess player's ambitions run away with him, say the British, they will immediately withdraw their subsidy, officers, Glubb and all, and cut off supplies...
...mended all limbs gratis regardless of party affiliation. But the best the combined opposition could hope for seemed to be reducing Dev's majority to a mere plurality, and further confound an increasingly confused government. In that case Dev, who refused to consider joining a coalition, might resign, but the chances of forming a successful coalition without him were so slight that another general election would undoubtedly follow promptly...
...rival, Miss Liu Heng-ching, a dignified veteran of 20 years in the Kuomintang, pressed the claims of long and dutiful party service. What to do? Miss Liu proposed a deal: if popular Miss Li withdrew, veteran Miss Liu would serve only half her three-year term, resign in favor of Miss Li. "Never!" cried Miss Li. "This isn't democracy...
More than half of the Class of '46 either have never heard of the election or have protested against it. The course of action for the committee therefore is clear: resign and permit a new election to be held. The committee must take the initiative because they control what little administrative machinery there is. The difficulties incurred in a new balloting are not insurmountable. The men of '46 still remember their classmates, and some few of them vividly. The latter are the men who will win the new election, and the ones who rightfully belong on the permanent class committee...