Word: resignation
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Throughout this period of criticism against the loyalty oath I have heard no student who has singed it complain against intimidation. If there has been any silent disapproval, those who are not in favor have the opportunity to resign and follow whatever policies they wish--we have no concentration camps or bleak salt mines to which to send those who disagree with the polices of the government. Young Progressive take note. Douglas G. Shaw...
...last week the Queuille cabinet had agreed that the lowest-paid workers must have wage bonuses. M. Queuille assumed that the bonus tables would be worked out with himself as arbiter, but Socialist Labor Minister Daniel Mayer abruptly refused to accept this. Queuille had to resign...
...appointed Martha Lucas as a U.S. delegate to the Paris UNESCO conference, Sweet Briar suspected she might not stay much longer at the college she had helped to make one of the best in the U.S. Sure enough, last week, President Lucas sent word from Paris that she would resign next June. Chatting with newsmen before taking the boat train enroute to the U.S., she said she next wanted to write a book on the philosophy of religion which might help to "bridge the gaps of understanding that separate the peoples of the world today." She had been thinking about...
...success, Professor Haberler agrees with Professor Williams that Britain's internal welfare program should be less lavish and that her sterling war debt should be repaid less liberally. He also thinks this country sooner or later will have to allow its export volume to drop. "Otherwise we must resign ourselves to subsidizing the world forever...
...Joint Chiefs of Staff, he declared, the Navy was under the thumb of the two other services, who "may have a landlocked conception of national defense." Unless "corrective action" was taken, Crommelin planned to resign and "fight this potential dictatorship from without the service...