Word: resigned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Said Joe: "Roy thinks he has resigned [as chief counsel for McCarthy's permanent investigating subcommittee], but I want to tell Roy Cohn he has not and cannot ever resign . . . I intend to draw on the knowledge and background he has in Communism. The most brilliant young man I've ever known is always going to be available, and called upon very, very often for help and advice." It was nearly midnight, and the room was heavy with eye-stinging smoke when Rabbi Schultz rose to introduce the Junior Hero. Said Schultz: "The plain people know the loss...
Salisbury was ready to resign in protest, and said so. So, according to friends, was Eden. Though Eden is inclined to think that many things can be solved by friendly talks with friendly Communists, he, as Foreign Secretary, wants to do the negotiating. And in Churchill's present erratic state of health, he and many others feared that the old man might make some unwise commitment which would hobble the future Eden government. In London, on his way home from Geneva, U.S. Under Secretary of State Bedell Smith added his voice to those that were determined to keep Britain...
...Bourguiba's endorsement of his plan. Then, in a bitter five-hour fight, Mendès pushed his Tunisia plan through to cabinet approval. Two Gaullist members-Defense Minister Pierre Koenig and Minister for Tunisian and Moroccan Affairs Christian Fouchet -feared a "sellout" and threatened to resign. "If you resign," snapped Mendès, "I resign." That counterthreat brought the dissidents into line...
...Serbian Orthodox Church in Montenegro, was sentenced to 11½; years of solitary confinement in prison. The indictment was not published, but the metropolitan's offenses were clear. He had boldly led the fight against a Communist-run front organization of fellow-traveling priests, and had refused to resign his post when the government ordered...
...first woman diplomat; of a coronary thrombosis; in Copenhagen. Daughter of three-time Democratic Presidential Candidate William Jennings Bryan, at one time she taught public speaking, lectured on the Chautauqua circuit, served in the House of Representatives (1929-33), found greatest happiness as Minister to Denmark but had to resign in 1936 when she married Borge Rohde, a captain in the King's palace guards...