Word: resignation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only on the legislation but on his archenemy, A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany. There, before a surprisingly thin crowd of Teamster members, Hoffa called Meany a "traitor" for supporting the Kennedy bill, cockily challenged him to a Hoffa-Meany vote of confidence throughout organized labor with the loser to resign from office...
Election to the French Academy is for eternity and its 36 distinguished members are known as the "Immortals." Last week the Immortals were stunned when 72-year-old Novelist Pierre Benoit, an Academy member since 1931, asked to resign. The Academy refused. Said Nobel Prize Author Francois Mauriac: "One does not resign from the Academy. One is immortal for eternity." Benoit, touched by the Academy's refusal but unpersuaded, replied: "I will never again set foot in the Academy. It would really be tactless of me." Benoit had supported the unsuccessful Academy candidacy of Paul Morand, a novelist rejected...
WASHINGTON, May 19--The nomination of Lewis L. Strauss to be Secretary of Commerce squeaked through the Senate Commerce Committee today on a 9-8 vote. WASHINGTON, May 19--Secretary of Defense Neil H. McElroy today suspended his plans to resign and said he may not leave the Eisenhower Cabinet...
...state constitution bars him from succeeding himself in the big white Governor's mansion built by brother Huey, but last week paunchy Earl sprang plans for a brazen circumvention: he will 1) resign as Governor just before the Sept. 15 qualifying deadline, 2) turn over his office to loyal Lieutenant Governor Lether Frazar, 3) campaign for a new term as Frazar's successor-and thus, as even head-scratching lawyers had to acknowledge, technically avoid the constitutional ban on succeeding himself...
...longtime British diplomat, who excelled in tennis, often bumbled in diplomacy; of a heart attack; in London. As Foreign Secretary in 1935, he engineered with wily French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval the notorious pact that surrendered a fifth of besieged Ethiopia to Mussolini. Forced by public outrage to resign, he bounced back to office under Neville Chamberlain, backed Chamberlain's Munich appeasement because he felt it would intimidate Russia. "He passes," someone said, "from experience to experience, like Boccaccio's virgin, without discernible effect upon his condition...