Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bewilderment of the gentlemen of the press after five days of impassioned debate by members of the Canadian House of Representatives upon the "Want of Confidence" motion introduced by Conservative Leader Meighen (TIME, Jan. 18) for the purpose of forcing the Government of Liberal Leader Premier King to resign...
...cohorts of famed Conservative Leader Arthur Meighen, and the Premier himself, having been defeated in the electoral contest for his own seat, may not take his customary place on the floor of the House. Thus it would appear superficially that the King Government has been "repudiated" and ought to resign. However, it happens that the 25 Progressives are typically better friends of the 101 King Liberals than of the 116 Meighen Conservatives; and Premier King is conceded to have a good chance of keeping a Liberal-plus-Progressive Majority together. Since such a coalition would out-number the Conservatives...
...stifling censorship has made impartial news despatches from Bulgaria rare to the point of nonexistence. Last week the cables reported that Premier Tsankov and his absolutist Cabinet had been forced to resign when the gradually crumbling Government coalition in the Sobranye (Parliament) failed to obtain a majority. It was declared that ten Macedonian Deputies who bolted from the Tsankov coalition caused the Government's fall. Promptly Tsar Boris of Bulgaria evinced his satisfaction at the fall of Tsankov by calling upon that noted Macedonian jack of all political trades, M. Andre Liaptcheff, to form a new government...
...group of Deputies surrounded M. Briand and slyly reminded him that the power of M. Herriot's Cartel des Gauches* has allegedly been resurrected. They twitted the Premier with adroit insinuations that the Cartellist Ministers?Chautemps (Interior), Deladier (Education), Durafour (Labor), Renoult (Justice)?were about to resign from the Cabinet, thereby discrediting the Briand Government and paving the way for a purely Cartel Ministry. For the benefit of everyone within hearing the Briand throat was cleared. His luxuriant tufted jungle of hair seemed to dilate as he cast a swift piercing glance about...
...shall make every effort for conciliation within my Cabinet. However, if certain Ministers wish to abandon me I will not raise a finger. . . . (But I shall not abandon those Ministers who remain faithful to me and to France! I shall not resign...