Word: resigned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proletarians could attend to: they dropped by the local Communist Party headquarters and turned in their cards. "Look what has happened.'' Merlino told his old comrades, "because I listened to your trash. I just want to work. I just want to feed my children. I want to resign...
...measures to help drought-stricken farmers. But to many farm-belt politicians and livestock men, that is not enough, and Benson's clear intimation that he really prefers a freer market is too much. Suddenly, reporters began badgering Benson with that ominous Washington question: "Are you going to resign?" As early as mid-September both Ike and his Secretary of Agriculture were aware of the power of the question to change the tide. In Denver to confer with the President, Benson said: "I did not go to Washington because I wanted the job. The President may have my resignation...
Last week, after 27 years as a cop, Louis Shoulders resigned from the force "to save the department further embarrassment." Said he: "I got the kidnapers. I got the woman. I got the gun they used. What more did they want me to get? I did not get the money . . . I'm broke." Said the police commission coldly: "We regret that Lieut. Shoulders has seen fit to resign before this investigation has been completed." Shoulders' next date: a federal grand jury hearing this week in Kansas City, where he said he would refuse to testify...
Nearly a month had passed since the U.S. and Britain announced their plan to break the eight-year-old deadlock over Trieste. Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia was expected to boil with anger, and he did. But he was also expected to calm down and resign himself grudgingly to the Allies' fait accompli. The disquieting fact last week was that Tito showed little sign of calming down...
...Rome, it was not Tito's threats that worried Italian leaders so much as the possibility that the Western powers would be influenced into delaying indefinitely or even altering their decision. At one point last week, Premier Giuseppe Pella was disturbed over this possibility; he threatened to resign, but was talked...