Word: resigned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SEVERAL WEEKS AGO, Derrick A. Bell, Jr., the Law School's only black professor, wrote a confidential letter to his colleagues protesting Law School hiring practices. Bell warned that unless the number of minority faculty increased, he might resign...
Harvard may win a national championship this season. Whatever the record of this fine team may be, I intend to enjoy watching them play, and success would please no fan more than myself. But I'm afraid I must resign myself to having my enjoyment diminished by the rude, stupid behavior of a few imbeciles who don't seem to understand what the sport is about. Sincerely, Stephen Spaulding...
Monsignor Eugene V. Clark, a spokesman for Cardinal Cooke of the New York archdiocese, fired off a heated telegram of protest to President Ford, demanding that Butz "apologize immediately or resign." A chastened Butz is sued a statement saying that his gaffe "was not intended to impugn the motives or the integrity of any religious group, ethnic group or religious leader...
...weeks after Richard Nixon resigned last August, the editors of Bungei-Shunju, a respected Tokyo-based monthly, decided to do a little Watergate-style digging into the shady financial dealings of their own chief executive. Largely as a result of those excavations, Premier Kakuei Tanaka was forced last week to resign...
Robert Snyder, hearing examiner for the board, said that "everyone up to the assistant to the director was unaware of the charges brought against the two board members." The two board members are "from what I know" not planning to resign, Snyder added...