Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...forth in TIME last week although not then agreed upon, it was that Sweden and Czechoslovakia should resign their Council seats, after which the assembly should elect Poland and "a neutral" (The Netherlands) to fill, these vacancies. That Sweden and Czechoslovakia should have been brought to offer such a sacrifice well illustrates the very real desire for compromise among the nations...
Trembling with rage and stumbling in his nervousness, M. Malvy himself mounted the tribune. A slight, dark man with large prominent eyes, his voice was heard only occasionally over roars of "Traitor!" "Chacal!" "Resign!" "Scelerat!" "Pig!" "Traitor...
...High Command! The High Command knows that the blood of Chemin des Dames is not on these hands of mine! They are clean! I besought you, M. Briand, not to call me into your Cabinet. I told you my enemies would repeat these lies. Gladly I would resign...
...these blue laws in Michigan. True, we have. But let any official try to enforce 'em. Why, the mere attempt would put any man out of office! ... If the ministers can't keep their people in church without this tyrannical legislation, it's high time for them to resign. . . . What this country needs is not less but more amusement...
...Government, with its own bill up its sleeve, stood grimly by and watched the Cartelist Deputies struggle to such negligible effect that M. Lamoureux, reporter of the Cartel measure, repeatedly threatened to resign in utter disgust...