Word: resigned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clear that Talbott had misused his position as Secretary of the Air Force to solicit business for Paul B. Mulligan & Co., the Manhattan clerical-efficiency firm in which he was a partner. Almost everyone in the subcommittee's hearing room thought that he was about to resign from the Air Force. Talbott resigned, all right-from Mulligan...
Successor to Come. With a show of pious reluctance, Governor Shivers broke the sad news to Morrow: he had better resign. Morrow recalled what Shivers told him: "It's pure politics, Wright; I need Rayburn's help." Morrow stubbornly refused, and the governor hustled off to headquarters. In a Capitol Hill serving kitchen he smoked the peace pipe with Sam Rayburn and bloodless National Chairman Paul Butler. The sacrifice was coolly arranged...
...Publication Corp. stock, the Elliott group can dilute Publication Corp.'s share in Crowell-Collier to as low as 6.5%, thus end its working control. If all goes well at a special stockholders' meeting next week, most of Crowell-Collier's old 17-man board will resign, to be replaced by a streamlined, nine-man board which will be controlled by the Elliott group. Smith left no question about who will then run Crowell-Collier: he has already been named "chief executive officer...
...love geography. Last week, convinced that "in a time when the pressure of world population upon natural resources is increasing and when the world's regions are more closely linked to each other," a geographer has a special role to play, Gilbert White decided to resign. His new post: professor of geography at the University of Chicago...
...power in 1945, arrested (and still jailed after seven years); Miguel Miranda, Perón's onetime economic czar, ousted: Juan Bramuglia, Foreign Minister who incurred the wrath of Eva Perón, and Oscar Ivanissevich. Education Minister who wrote the pep song Peronista Boys, both forced to resign: Domingo Mercante, governor of Buenos Aires Province, humiliated and ousted; Juan Duarte, Perón's own brother-in-law and private secretary, repudiated and fired (he committed suicide...