Word: resignation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...arrival of each new "Administration. In 1961, because the incoming Kennedy Administration feared that the Federal Reserve might not go along with plans to stimulate the then-sluggish economy, some New Frontiersmen spread the fiction that it was a "tradition" for the Federal Reserve chairman to offer to resign. Martin never took the hint. Today's Federal Reserve governors are mostly Democratic appointees and, for the first time in many years, the board stands to the left of the Administration. But President Nixon has pointedly asked Martin to stay on until his term expires next...
Psalm Readings. Israel, however, was overnight less preoccupied with external anger than with internal sorrow. Only a few of Premier Levi Eshkol's closest associates knew that he had suffered a heart attack last month and offered to resign. Persuaded to stay on, he relinquished much of his detailed, day-to-day work to Deputy Premier Yigal Allon. On the day before his death, Eshkol seemed unusually ebullient for a convalescent, a fact that troubled Allon, who recalled that his own father had been in especially high spirits just before he died. Eshkol scheduled a ministerial committee meeting...
...ascension; actually, she is heading down the up staircase, and every move brings her closer to destruction. Her charges are wise to her romances-with a married artist (Robert Stephens) and a bumbling music master (Gordon Jackson). Their giggles harden into gossip, and Miss Brodie is asked to resign. When she refuses, the administrators lie in wait for her next indiscretion. It is not long in coming...
...dashes around the world blasting out spectacular blazes in other people's wells. When he isn't hellfighting, he puzzles out all sorts of complicated personal relationships: Will he get back together with his wife? Will daughter find true happiness with Her Man? Will the womenfolk ever resign themselves to their menfolk's dangerous pursuits...
...ONLY PROBLEM, it seems, was that Miss Rogers refused to resign her Institute post to work for the government. Some Cynical Men such as Rep. Benjamin Rosenthal (D-N.Y.), thought that if she kept both jobs, Miss Rogers might not help close down those Good Housekeeping advertisers that the government is currently after...