Word: resigned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pattern. Vargas never lost touch with Brazil's poor and underprivileged, but by war's end, the Estado Novo was discredited. The army, announcing that the country was overdue for democracy, forced Vargas to resign, and he went into self-exile at his Rio Grande do Sul ranch from which he emerged this year...
Next morning the new parliament convened and with almost unanimous voice appointed meddlesome Henry Head a constable of Sark-a gesture of pure revenge, since Sark's two constables are unpaid and may not resign or refuse their jobs under severe penalty of law. Said Henry Head: "I object...
University faculties throughout the U.S. have been debating this question ever since the regents of the University of California issued their famous "sign or resign" ultimatum to the California faculty last winter (TIME, March 6 et seq.). This week, in a book review* in the New York Sunday Times, a cool and collected sifting of the question came from New York University's Sidney Hook, eminent philosopher and political liberal...
Clay persuaded Lawrence Wilkinson, 45, onetime banker who served in the Ordnance Department during the war, to resign a postwar banking job for the $17,500 post of defense director. Their staff consisted of 55 full-time employees, four of them volunteers. The key men in their setup were the state's own department heads in Albany, e.g., the Commissioners of Housing, Health, the Director of Safety, the Superintendent of Public Works...
This week Munitions Board Chairman Hubert Howard, who had done his best to step up lagging stockpile procurement in his short first year (see BUSINESS), became the first Johnsonite to resign from the Defense Department. Most likely to follow: Assistant Defense Secretary Paul Griffith and Special Assistant Brigadier General Louis Renfrew, both old Johnson cronies...