Word: resignations
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University faculties throughout the U.S. have been debating this question ever since the regents of the University of California issued their famous "sign or resign" ultimatum to the California faculty last winter (TIME, March 6 et seq.). This week, in a book review* in the New York Sunday Times, a cool and collected sifting of the question came from New York University's Sidney Hook, eminent philosopher and political liberal...
Clay persuaded Lawrence Wilkinson, 45, onetime banker who served in the Ordnance Department during the war, to resign a postwar banking job for the $17,500 post of defense director. Their staff consisted of 55 full-time employees, four of them volunteers. The key men in their setup were the state's own department heads in Albany, e.g., the Commissioners of Housing, Health, the Director of Safety, the Superintendent of Public Works...
This week Munitions Board Chairman Hubert Howard, who had done his best to step up lagging stockpile procurement in his short first year (see BUSINESS), became the first Johnsonite to resign from the Defense Department. Most likely to follow: Assistant Defense Secretary Paul Griffith and Special Assistant Brigadier General Louis Renfrew, both old Johnson cronies...
...join a political club. Since there was little chance for reward or advancement (i.e., the judgeship Murphy was hoping for), there was little point in staying on the Government payroll for a piddling $9,400 a year. After Hiss's appeal has been completed, therefore, Murphy will resign...
...field to his lieutenant governor, 74-year-old Joseph R. Hanley. But Republicans knew that a New York mayoralty election would rouse up an otherwise apathetic, big-city, Democratic vote; as a matter of fact that was one of the reasons why O'Dwyer had been encouraged to resign. In some panic Republicans looked again to Dewey. But there stood Hanley, defiantly repeating his intention to run. All of a sudden, Hanley gave...