Word: resignation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...authoritarianism." Mazzi, along with three other priests and 150 Florentine laymen, sent the rebels a letter of support. Florence's archbishop, Ermenegildo Cardinal Florit, then wrote Mazzi, reproving him for "an insulting attitude to the authority of the church." Florit ordered the priest to retract his letter or resign. Mazzi refused, and 108 priests of the city petitioned the cardinal to re-examine his condemnation...
...been using for religious instruction in Isolotto. The catechism stressed the working-class origins of Jesus. Cardinal Florit forbade other Florence priests to use the catechism and complained that it portrayed Christ only as an "agitator" and would contribute to "social tension." Once again he asked Mazzi to resign...
...harder to remain near the center of power, and some, who have served ever since John Kennedy took office eight years ago, have no desire to do so. Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman, one of J.F.K.'s first appointees, announced even before the election that he would resign to head Washington's EDP Technology International Inc., a firm which uses computer technology to solve client countries' sociological and military problems. Wilbur Cohen, who joined the Kennedy Administration as an Assistant Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare in 1961 and eventually succeeded John Gardner, will go back...
...committee recommended that current full-time staff employed by these four denominations at Harvard and M.I.T. resign to allow the planners free rein to choose staff...
...election like a "rather minor circus episode." But Matthews ignored him. Finally, Managing Editor Manfred Gottfried told Luce either to edit the section himself or to stay away. "Luce announced that he would exile himself," writes Elson, "but he continued to fulminate from a distance." Matthews offered to resign as NATIONAL AFFAIRS editor, but Luce asked him to stay on. Later, he became managing editor...