Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Governess Ferguson announced?or her husband did it for her? that she would resign from office if she did not get a majority of 25,000 on July 24, provided that Dan Moody would resign his post as attorney general if he did not get a majority. Foolishly, some thought, Mr. Moody accepted the challenge...
...third candidate should prevent either of the two from getting a majority, neither will have to resign. Otherwise one or the other will have to resign after the primary in July, and it is just conceivable that both might have to resign under the literal terms of the agreement?if Mrs. Ferguson should win with a majority of less than 25,000. Between 800,000 and 1,000,000 votes are expected to be cast in the primary, since the state is watching breathlessly the Moody-Ferguson battle...
...Palace Cabinet" persistently refused to resign, despite the utter rout of its nominal supporters at the polls. Its real backers were more than hinted at in a widely credited rumor that Lord Lloyd had demanded, as British High Commissioner to Egypt, that if a Wafd cabinet should be formed special guarantees must be given Britain respecting Suez and the Sudan. A despatch positively asserted that he had also demanded the right to "approve" the members of any new cabinet which might be formed "in the interests of public safety...
...efficient superintendence of Poland's railway mobilization against the Soviets' attempted invasion six years ago. Last week he announced: 1) The Cabinet will at once convoke the National Assembly, which will elect a new President who must be acceptable to Marshal Pilsudski. 2) The Cabinet will then resign, and the President will name a new Premier. 3) Thereafter Parliament will be prorogued by executive decree until a new general election can be held...
Finance Minister Janssen (Socialist) was obliged to resign, and the Cabinet fell last week when Premier Viscount Poullet at length found it impossible to hold together the highly complex Centrist-Socialist coalition, which has enabled the Poullet Cabinet to carry on for eleven months...