Word: resignation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dean Wild last night refused to confirm or deny reports that he would resign from the University to assume the Northwestern job, stating that "there is nothing I can say at this time." And Franklin B. Snyder, outgoing president of Northwestern, alternately refused comment and denied that any appointment had been made. Other University officials at Evanston also declined to comment...
Avery, now 75 years old, had not planned his loneliness. When he goaded President Wilbur Norton and four vice presidents into leaving last year (TIME, May 31 et seq.), he persuaded three other vice presidents, who had also threatened to resign, to stay on. But he neither forgot nor forgave their participation in "the Norton conspiracy" to curb some of Avery's dictatorial power. Last month he decided how he would take his reprisal...
...democratic The Academy surely is. Why, even Ben Gordon, Jew, a was president of the Student Council. (But Ben was forced to resign when he refused to participate in The Academy's program of military training.) And this year we have with us a Negro boy, Tad McKinley. (But Tad is expelled a week before his graduation for making love to his girl at Spring Prom.) Happily, our new Council President is a fine lad, Buddy Brown; we're sure Buddy will do a fine job. (Buddy is a little stinker, but we treat him kindly because his father...
...clerk of the Suffolk superior civil court thinks Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy and Director of the Harvard College Observatory, should resign from the National Council of Arts, Sciences, and Professions...
Last fall the detractors won. The symphony's directors offered Netherlands-born Hans Kindler a new contract with one hand and evidently a hint with the other: if he accepted, they might not be able to raise enough money for another season. Kindler chose to resign from the orchestra he had founded and directed for 18 years...