Word: resigned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scandals shocked the U.S. conscience, but they were nothing compared to the corruption revealed in the Bureau of Internal Revenue. As the man who had presided over one of the messiest messes in Washington history, Internal Revenue Commissioner George Schoeneman was allowed to resign because of "ill health." Former BIR Commissioner Joseph Nunan Jr., convicted of evading $91,000 in income taxes for 1946-50, sentenced to five years in prison, wailed that despite his job, he simply had not been much of a tax expert. BIR Chief Counsel Charles Oliphant resigned angrily after Witness Abraham Teitelbaum said...
...sleep had kept him away from important Cabinet meetings and caused the press to label him "the afternoon-nap Prime Minister." Worst of all, leaders of the powerful business associations that had bankrolled his rise to power were publicly beginning to suggest that it was time for him to resign-much as they did two years before to signal the ouster of Premier Shigeru Yoshida...
...London last week, cocktail-party pundits predicted: "Nasser or Eden out of power by October." At a Socialist rally in Caterham, the Labor Party's foreign-affairs spokesman, Alfred Robens, cried that if peaceful negotiations with Nasser failed, Anthony Eden "has no alternative but to resign." One lover of historical irony, harking back to Ethiopian War days of Eden the boy-wonder diplomat, announced that Eden was about to end his career as he began it, talking about sanctions that he can't deliver...
However small, the victory margin opened the door to the governorship for Daniel, who will face only token Republican opposition in November. He is expected to resign his Senate seat some time between the general election and his January inauguration, in which case his successor will be picked in a singleshot, leader-take-all special election. Already a declared Senate candidate and the early favorite: ultraconservative, Red-chasing Congressman at Large Martin Dies. Likely to give Dies his toughest competition: Ralph Yarborough...
...nation's elementary and secondary schools employed just over one million teachers. By 1959, says Handlin, they will need 600,000 more. But since "well over 50,000 retire or resign each year, the schools will find it necessary to recruit almost three-quarters of a million new teachers in the next three years. In addition, the 200,000 or so instructors now on the staffs of American universities will have to multiply themselves in the next twelve years to at least 450,000, through the recruitment of no fewer than 25,000 new faculty members each year...