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Word: resignations (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some student and graduate clubmen howled in protest. The sophomores were infringing upon the clubs' "basic right of selectivity." But there were plenty of other clubmen who disagreed: 217 said they would themselves resign unless the sophomores had their way. By week's end, the sophomores seemed to be winning the battle that Woodrow Wilson lost. Said Chairman William Wallace of the Undergraduate Interclub Committee: "The clubs will try their best to fit their election machinery to the sophomore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Come One, Come All | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...religion from Catholic to Episcopal, had served his New Jersey district in Congress for twelve years, had even been re-elected last November with the charges hanging over him. He had indignantly denied them then. Due in federal court for sentencing this week, he was expected also to resign from Congress, to let a better American take his place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Reckoning | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...foreign diplomatic corps intervened to avert bloodshed. Just before 2 o'clock a committee of ten diplomats, including U.S. Ambassador Monnett B. Davis, arrived at the police station to ask for a ten-minute extension. They telephoned the palace, where Chanis was now ready to compromise: he would resign if Remón would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hail to the Chief | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...position was offered had decided last spring after Compton had decided to resign. Conant was one of the leaders in the United States development of atomic energy and served from 1941 to 1946 as chairman of the National Defense Research Committee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conant Refuses Leadership Of War Development Board | 11/26/1949 | See Source »

David Lilienthal's resignation is not happy for the country. It will be difficult to find any man who can come close to equalling his insight into the problems of the AEC. But David Lilienthal can at least resign knowing that his reputation is clean and his job well done...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Loss | 11/25/1949 | See Source »

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