Word: resignation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...into investment banking in Atlanta, became manager of the local office of Chase-Harris, Forbes Corp. in 1931, two years later was made assistant vice president. When the firm was dissolved, Gene became a second vice president of Chase, this year rose to senior vice president. (He will now resign from Chase...
James Roe, the Democratic leader who had requested Lenz's resignation back in May, asked for it again. Roe said that Lenz should resign "immediately because his action (in opposing the Schultz amendment) has proved him to be utterly unfit to serve as dean at Queens College any longer...
Republican Councilman Clemente also demanded the dean's resignation, but in spite of this bi-partisan attack, Lenz did not resign. The Schultz amendment, the cause of the dispute, was finally defeated on November...
...before the scheduled strike, on May 19, faculty advisors to the A.V.C. and the Progressive Coalition Party resigned. The administration said that the A.V.C. advisor resigned "In protest against A.V.C.'s support of stoppage." But in a telegram to the Board of Higher Education, the local Teachers Union charged that these men "were called before the Dean of Students and requested to resign, thus preventing the existence of these clubs on campus, though no specific charges against the conduct of these clubs have been levelled...
Then a serious nervous shake-up forced Mr. Forrestal to resign, and Louis A. Johnson, with a reputedly pro-Army background, took over. The Air Force promptly renewed the fight, claiming that the big carrier, scheduled to be laid down in early April, was superfluous and eminently vulnerable. The airmen said the cost of the ship was too high for its usefulness, that it was an infringement on their "rightful control of strategic bombing." The Navy fought back, citing the fine record of its carriers in the World War II Pacific campaigns. Then the Air Force appeared with its trump...