Word: resignation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three and possibly four assistant deans will resign next month in the biggest Dean's Office turnover since the end of the war, it was reported last night...
Slipping off to Hartford, he appeared at a press conference with Democratic Governor Chester Bowles at his side. Some time before the end of the year, they announced, Baldwin would resign from the Senate to take a $12,000-a-year vacancy on the state's Supreme Court of Errors. Though the appointment was nominally for only eight years, it was traditionally a lifetime job, and 55-year-old Raymond Baldwin would be in line for the post of chief justice in four years...
...Republicans were not appeased. Cried New Hampshire's angry Styles Bridges: "Everyone on the Republican side this morning was either sick to his stomach or mad as hell. It is impossible for me to understand how any Republican Senator would resign his position of responsibility and trust when it meant turning the post over to a Democrat.* It doesn't smell good to me." But to the Democrats, and especially to Chester Bowles, it smelled fine...
...chairman of the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship) had finally led Holy Trinity's vestrymen to appeal to the Bishop of Long Island for the ouster of their rector. After the court ruled, many a Holy Trinity parishioner hoped that son William would at last resign so that the bishop could reverse his decision on the well-loved father...
WASHINGTON, D. C., April 29--(APE)--One of the stormiest legal disputes in year threatened to tear the Supreme Court apart tonight as Justice Felix Frankfurter, former southpaw mound ace, threatened to resign from the nation's highest tribunal in protest of Chief Justice Vinson's ruling Thursday that Lionel "The Toy" Train was unconstitutional and could not play in yesterday's classic, won by the Crimson...