Word: resigned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Metcalf added to the squeeze; he acquired 125,000 bu. of May futures for himself and family. (Later, said the report, General Foods executives forced him to resign because of his side speculation...
...city's force of 1,900 as Federation members. Then St. Louis' Board of Police Commissioners (appointed by the Governor) ordered Miller fired-for violation of a rule against a policeman joining an outside organization. It also ordered those cops who had joined the union to resign from it or be fired, required them to make written reports of their withdrawal...
Neighborhood Talk. Wrote Baptist Parson J. Frank Norris of Fort Worth, Tex., long known as the "wild man of the Southern Baptist Church": "Since you have come out and endorsed Communistic Russia, the worst bunch of bandits in history, you should resign instantly . . . the presidency of the Southern Baptist Convention...
After 1942 he was too sick to appear in the Senate. But he did not resign. He lived on in Washington at the Mayflower Hotel, near death but refusing to die. Last week, as it must to all men, Death came at 88 to Virginia's Senator Carter Glass...
...final session was six hours of quick-fire debate. The delegates decided that they would "not attempt a Socialist International before achieving collaboration with the Soviet Union." Laski tried to hide his disappointment with a magnanimous gesture: "I will rather resign the chairmanship of the British Labor Party than subscribe to an attempt to force a Socialist International in the face of the feeling here against...