Word: resignation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...provoked by her own views and actions but also many punches which were really intended for me or for the publications of which I am editor in chief. The attack of Senator Wayne Morse is perhaps the most vitriolic example of this." Mrs. Luce, he recalled, had offered to resign after TIME became a factor in the "Bolivian incident." Christian Herter, then Acting Secretary of State, refused the offer. "Almost unanimously the press of Brazil asserted that even if a few U.S. Senators were unable to do so, the Brazilian people were quite capable of distinguishing between Bolivia and Brazil...
...been settled in her favor is difficult to understand.We happen to be one of Mrs. Luce's admirers. She did a fine job as American Ambassador to Italy. She is one of the nation's most able women. But we think she was wise to resign...
TACOMA NEWS-TRIBUNE : Say what you will of her reasons for resigning, her statement of them was forthright and plausible enough. Over and above the fact that Morse's ugly words had smeared her. she noted that Morse is chairman of the subcommittee on Latin American affairs, and that in the embassy she could expect no support from the chairman. It seems she has set the Senator from Oregon a splendid example. He should resign as chairman of the subcommittee...
...crux of the dilemma rested on the finely-felted shoulder of Timeditor Luce. Globally viewing with alarm, he messaged his trimly serene wife she must resign lest Timempire acquire politically biased repute. Clearly, she agreed that personal ambition, plus loss of her finely-honed talents, must yield to the greater, world-wide, propagation of truth, untainted...
When Henry Dunster, first president of Harvard, became convinced that the Baptist position on infant baptism was sound, he felt that he had drifted so far from Puritan orthodoxy there was only one thing to do: resign. He would have been pleased at last week's announcement of a new dean for Harvard Divinity School. Dr. Samuel Howard Miller will be the first Baptist dean in its 147-year history...