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...Berlin for somewhat less than a year. He is, by all reports, an affable man: a pastor fond of saying that "besides the Bible a rail-road schedule is the only book that doesn't lie." When, last month, his own Social Democratic Party (SPD) forced him to resign, he became the first victim of a political struggle which may reshape German politics...
...expected Griswold will resign his Harvard post--which he has held since 1946--once his nomination is confirmed by the U.S. Senate. As a life-long Republican who backed President Johnson in 1964 and a lawyer with a worldwide reputation, Griswold should meet little opposition on Capitol Hill...
...State No. 1 in the President's Cabinet, and Lyndon Johnson has made him No. 1 in presidential esteem and trust. Anything that affects Rusk personally also affects the Administration politically. Thus there was credibility to the speculation that Rusk, when informing Johnson of the wedding, offered to resign if the White House considered that necessary...
Died. James P. Finnegan, 66, one-time (1944-51) collector of Internal Revenue in St. Louis and a central figure in the Truman Administration scandals, the first of some 30 tax officials to resign during the 1951 congressional probe that uncovered illegal payoffs in many IRS offices, was convicted in 1952 of taking money from two firms with cases before the Government, serving 18 months of a two-year term for misconduct in office; of a heart ailment; in Webster Groves...
Senate Sacrifice. When Lodge ran for the Senate in 1936, he was the only Republican to displace an incumbent Democrat in that F.D.R. landslide year. In 1944, he became the first Senator since the Civil War to resign his seat for active combat, joining an armored corps in Europe as a major. Lodge returned to the Senate after the war more internationalist than ever, led the fight in pushing through the Marshall plan and NATO over the opposition of conservative Republicans...