Word: resignation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Committee on Government Operations. He said that he had been chairman of the committee, but had stepped down to let "a great American," Bill Dawson, the first Negro chairman of a House Committee take over. "I stay on, because I know he'd feel heartbroken if I were to resign," McCormack declared...
...Reader's Digest condensation. On Broadway, Producers Robert Fryer and Lawrence Carr plan to stage Advise and Consent next autumn. Counting the Preminger deal, Drury could gross more than $500,000 from his book. At week's end New Novelist Drury announced he would resign from the Times, to write more books and become the Reader's Digest Washington Correspondent...
...flourishing Congregationalist secondary school. When pines and people dwindled, it became a fading nonsectarian college. Gus Turbeville inherited a huddle of Victorian buildings, an unaccredited school without entrance requirements, a refuge for flunkees from other colleges. More than one trustee said to him: "I'd like to resign as soon as possible...
Gary R. Gober '63 and David B. Allen '63, today announced their intention to resign from the four-man contingent representing the Freshman Council at the Harvard Student Council meetings. Both plan to continue as Freshman Council members...
...indeed turn into swans. As a vice president, secretary and legal counsel for Montgomery Ward & Co. under depression-minded, penny-pinching Chairman Sewell Avery, Barr was as undistinguished as a duckling; his chief claim to fame was that he showed a rare ability to survive the purges and resignations that cost Ward's five presidents and 30 vice presidents in 23 years. Barr managed to stay by avoiding open conflict with Avery, kept quiet about things that he knew he could not change. This led many an outsider to tab him as a yes man without an idea...