Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Smart Guys. Editor Morris, who has had to resign his parish post in Birkdale, Lancashire to devote full time to the magazine, deftly manages to dispense his message without sacrificing any of the thrills & chills his readers expect for their thruppence. But beneath the candy coating the Christian pill can be detected in such touches as the special, advanced category of Eagle Club members called "Mugs...
...students of north Belgium's University of Ghent (enrollment 2,500) had no sooner heard the last words of the announcement than they began grumbling ominously. Their mild-mannered Rector Norbert Goormaghtigh was going to resign, and it was all because the Minister of Education in Brussels had appointed a local doctor named Joseph Van de Velde to the vacant chair of clinical surgery. The rector did not want him, nor did his. students. "Van de Velde can't even speak Flemish," was the students' cry. "This is Walloon interference again...
...more classes." They broke into the Commercial School for Girls. They invaded the ancient Castle of the Counts of Flanders and swarmed around its towers. Then they decided to move on Van de Velde's house itself, crying "Down with Van de Velde. We want Flemish professors. Resign! Resign!" At first they found themselves screaming at the wrong Dr. Van de Velde, a Ghent medical faculty man with the first name of Jean. But that did not embarrass them. Cried one striker: "What's the difference? This one can't talk Flemish properly either." Nothing, they decided...
...masters now," he yelled. On the government benches, Morrison flushed and fidgeted. Minister of National Insurance Edith Summerskill stared blankly into 'space. Only Clement Attlee saw the joke. Attlee threw back his head and roared with laughter. As the defeated Laborites filed from the House, the Tories shouted, "Resign, resign!", waved their handkerchiefs in farewell...
Clement Attlee had laughed because he knew the Tories did not want the Labor government to resign on the strength of a losing vote on a motion to adjourn. Next day, Attlee twitted the Conservatives for their "ambush" tactics, declared he refused to regard the issue as one of sufficient weight. "We carry on," he told the House. Said Tory Winston Churchill: "May I express to the Prime Minister our thanks . . ." The Labor benches interrupted him with a roar of laughter. Churchill glanced up, saw the joke, then concluded: ". . . for [his] full and careful statement." The Laborites were still...