Word: resignation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese, the Golden Hall with its Buddhas has been as important a national shrine as Mount Vernon to Americans. In Tokyo the Minister of Education, Yasumaro Shimojo, was so distressed (even though the hall itself could be restored) that he offered to resign. In Cambridge, Mass., where last week Fogg Museum officials hung twelve full-scale photographs of the murals to show the public what had been destroyed, Oriental art experts glumly compared the artistic loss to what the Western art world would lose in a fire in the Sistine Chapel...
...conducting of which Krueger is a disciple. I like this way of playing music, and it's the kind of music Detroit is going to get." Furthermore, he said: "I think a good shake-up and house cleaning is just what the Detroit Symphony needs. Troublemakers had better resign now before I fire them...
...Alan R. Moritz will resign the Francis Glessner Lee Professorship of Legal Medicine and the chairmanship of the Medical School's Department of Legal Medicine on September 1. He will become director of Weston reserve University's Institute of Pathology in Cleveland, it was revealed Saturday...
Communists denounced Father Molnar. In Mikofalva's only school, now run by the government, the teachers have not removed the crucifixes from the walls. Said the secretary of the local Communist Party: "I would rather resign or face a purge than remove the image of the first Communist, Jesus Christ...
Died. James Henry ("Dress-Shirt Jimmy") Thomas, 74, British labor leader who was forced to resign from the Cabinet in 1936 for tipping off friends on budget secrets; in London. Starting as a railroad engine wiper in his early teens, Thomas led his first strike at 15, rose to be head of the powerful National Union of Railwaymen, became a Laborite M.P., served in five Cabinets, was slated for the peerage when the budget scandal broke...