Word: resigned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Government has been placed in jeopardy." Then the Senate Small Business Committee, headed by Minnesota's Republican Senator Ed Thye, announced that it would conduct a full-scale investigation. At the Bureau of Standards itself, 400 staffers let it be known that they were planning to resign if Dr. Astin left...
...thinker, though he must decide what fits the law; he is basically, and in spite of his final decision, one who must always take orders. Although he seems to become momentarily human in his final decision, this is an illusion; gods connote stop, and neither can the general resign...
Faced with an unprecedented hookup of the army and labor, Perón let Duarte, his own brother-in-law, "resign" without so much as a letter of thanks for his services. Defensively, he then took to the radio with a rambling, emotional speech. Talking about inflation, Perón shrilly told the Argentines they were "18 million dunces" for "permitting themselves to be robbed" by black-marketeers. As for corruption: "It is usual for people to judge all public officials as thieves. But you can't call a man a thief unless you can prove...
...More Chance. Next afternoon the cabinet met again in emergency session. After an hour, it was joined by Supreme Court justices, and a rumor flashed around Buenos Aires that the judges had been called in to discuss legal problems of succession if the President should resign. Another report had the army demanding that the whole cabinet quit. In the end, the cabinet decided only to postpone action until Perón could appeal to the people once more. He was to get a chance this week; Vuletich ordered a four-hour token general strike during which labor was to hold...
...Lubells decided to resign from the staff on Tuesday. This decision was accepted without much argument the next day, at a staff meeting called specifically to elect a new President and Associate Editor...