Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Schuman would not accept the amendment nor this kind of one-party dictation to his coalition. He said he would resign if the amendment passed. When the vote came, his Socialist ministers rose from the government benches and resigned to sit and vote with their party. Schuman was beaten...
...insiders knew how extremely available Leo was. His trouble dated from the Fourth of July too. That was the day the Dodger road secretary took Leo aside at Ebbets Field and said: "I hate to tell you this, Leo, but the boss [Branch Rickey] wants you to resign." What had he done this time, Leo wanted to know. "Oh, nothing at all," said the boss's emissary, retreating...
...help remembering the calm, sure way Burt Shotton had run the team (and won a pennant) when Durocher was kicked out of baseball last season (TIME, April 21, 1947). But Leo wasn't going to oblige. Said he to the messenger: "Hell no, I won't resign. He's going to have to fire me ... man to man." Then the Dodgers won seven of their next nine games, climbed to fifth place-and Rickey couldn't fire Durocher and look good doing...
...last of the session's 399 bills and 5,000,000 words of debate were put into the record, Prime Minister King, 21 years and 25 days in office as head of Canada's government, rose to address the House. He reminded members of his decision to resign as Prime Minister two or three months after the August Liberal Convention has picked his successor. As he spoke, External Affairs Secretary Louis St. Laurent, his heir apparent, and Agriculture Minister James Gardiner, St. Laurent's only admitted rival, sat near by. For them or whoever else would take...
Schary said he would resign, but Hughes, as usual, had the last word: a fortnight before the date agreed upon, he summarily canceled three pictures that Schary had announced for production. Producer Schary quit two days later. Cracked the studio's new boss: "It saved me paying him two weeks' salary...