Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...right when Genet announced to him that his administration was being criticized. "Washington simply told me," wrote he, "that he did not read the papers and did not care. . . ." Genet's popularity made him a suspect; he was accused of inciting the people against the Government, forced to resign. At home, the guillotine waited; in the U. S., a comfortable exile. He died at Greenbush...
...following day, while the Senate was discussing the Education appropriations, Premier Herriot suddenly raised the question of confidence, received a vote of 142 to 140, which on a recount proved to be 139 to 143. The Premier decided to resign, but was later induced to reconsider his decision...
Premier Benito Mussolini stepped on his Finance Minister's toes when he unlocked the deadlock on the Bourse occasioned by Finance Minister De Stefani's decree against speculation. This immediately led to rumors of Signor De Stefani's resignation and it was presumed certain that the Premier would have to reshuffle his Cabinet before the next Parliamentary session; for, having virtually forced General di Giorgio, Minister of War, to resign (TIME, Apr. 13), and having accepted the resignation of the Under Secretary of War, it was conceded impossible for the Premier to sustain the loss...
...election would be likely to end in the return to power of ex-President Alexandre Millerand and ex-Premier Raymond Poincaré. What then? Is France once more to witness the ousting of a President as it did last June (TIME, June 23) when President Millerand was forced to resign? The answer was unborn...
...Premier was defeat for the Minister of War. Mussolini covered his own retreat to a better position, but left his rear guard, Di Giorgio, slain on the field. The virtual effect of the offer of delay was to withdraw the Reform Bill and General di Giorgio was prompt to resign. His resignation was accepted; and. Premier Mus- solini, who is also Minister of Foreign Affairs, became Minister of War ad interim...