Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prevent his trying to commit suicide, outwitted his keepers and slashed a four-inch gash in his throat. As he was rushed to hospital the story broke wide open. In Tokyo almost everyone expected the Home Minister, the Governor of the Prefecture and all officials however remotely concerned to resign...
Still a man of moods, Tarabas suffered fearful remorse, decided to resign his commission, punish himself by becoming a beggar. He had achieved tuberculosis, sainthood, the point of death before he found his victim again...
Marshal Pétain, testy old War Minister and close to the "Cross of Fire," had made a scene at the next to last meeting of the Cabinet. When the six Radical Socialist Ministers, headed by M. Edouard Herriot, announced that they would resign, rather than support a three-month emergency credit to give Premier Doumergue time to put through his proposed reform of the Constitution (TIME, Nov. 12), lean, grizzled Marshal Pétain marched up to paunchy, pipe-sucking M. Herriot and hissed "Monsieur, you have committed a crime against France...
Thus brutally did Lord Snowden reverse the popular belief that for once King George did something of importance, winning over his Prime Minister when the Scotsman came to Buckingham Palace determined to resign. As a matter of fact, according to Lord Snowden, "The day after the National Government was formed he [MacDonald] came into my room in Downing Street in very high spirits. I remarked to him that he would now find himself very popular in strange quarters. He replied gleefully, rubbing his hands, 'Yes, tomorrow every Duchess in London will be wanting to kiss...
...disturbances in Europe which may divert the attention of the world from her amibitious schemes in the pacific. The United States and Europe must either cooperate in taking a definitely hostile stand against further Japanese aggression if they intend to retain their authority unimpaired, or be prepared to resign it to Japanese militarists forthwith...