The supervisor, Thomas Galinski, 53, submitted a one-sentence letter to the district on July 21 but offered no explanation for his resignation.

Rebecca Chasin, 7, asked how to spell "learned" so she could write her one-sentence letter: "I started to learned how to water ski."

A one-sentence letter of resignation offered no clue.

That was verified several days later, Mr. Farkas said, by a one-sentence letter from Margaret Johnson, the chief clerk in the inmate records office at the prison.

USG's chairman, Robert Day, rejected the offer in a one-sentence letter.

Mr. Quackenbush, 46, offered his resignation, effective July 10, in a one-sentence letter to the only other Republican constitutional officer, Secretary of State Bill Jones.

Freud responded with a one-sentence letter: "I do not intend to see Mr. Goldwyn."

After submitting a one-sentence letter of resignation, Donald Regan said, "There's been a deliberate leak, and it's been done to humiliate me."

Within hours, Mr. Foley resigned in a one-sentence letter to Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida.

In the Platzer case, the exchange responded with a one-sentence letter, saying that "a validly issued subpoena may be quashed and/or enforced only by a court of competent jurisdiction."