Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Washington, Senator Arthur Vandenberg, ailing since last October, said he would resign from the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy as a start on taking things easier. No, he was not thinking of a Florida vacation: "I would just be on the phone every morning at 7:30 to find out what's going...
Gordon Gray went off to World War II as a private. He came out a captain, and was later appointed Assistant Secretary of the Army. Last spring Gordon Gray decided to resign, move his wife and four boys back to North Carolina and accept the deanship of his alma mater's up & coming business college. President Truman scotched his plans by persuading him to stay on as Secretary of the Army...
...Dwyer was back in Florida for some more rest to fight the virus infection that laid him low shortly after his reelection last November. In a long-distance telephone call from Key Largo to cronies in Manhattan's City Hall, he denied that he planned to resign because of poor health. Eleanor Roosevelt and Sister Kenny were named by a Gallup poll as the two women most admired by the U.S. public. Others, in order of finish: Clare Boothe Luce, Helen Keller, Madame Chiang Kaishek, Margaret Truman...
...week's end, with the news of the Communist seizure of the U.S. consul general's office in Peking, California's Bill Knowland made the angriest demand of the week. He wanted all State Department officials responsible for China policy to resign. Did this mean Secretary Acheson? he was asked. "If the shoe fits," snapped Knowland...
...good New Deal doctrine, back in the early '30s, that the U.S. industrial plant was built or overbuilt, that the last frontier had been reached, and that the nation had better resign itself to doing the best it could in a "mature economy." In 1932, Franklin D. Roosevelt defined the problem as "administering resources and plants already in hand." All this was formally reversed last week by Harry Truman...