Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...barracks, raising the total police and carabinieri killings attributed to them to an even 100. In a new letter to the Palermo press Giuliano proposed: "Let us give the judgment to the people of Sicily and have a poll. If the people condemn me, I promise that I will resign. But if the people want me, I want to follow my destiny...
Then Figueres announced that he would resign from the junta. Instead of returning to the contemplative life, he announced that he would form a new political party-Compactación Nacional (National Coalition)-and fight for his ideas. He would run for Vice President in next October's elections. In the interim between Figueres' resignation and the accession of beetle-browed Publisher Ulate, who assumes the presidency in November, stolid Interior Minister Fernando Valverde would act as chief of state...
...point he erred. He denied that, after Chambers' first charges against him, John Foster Dulles had asked him to resign as president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Dulles came later to the stand to correct Hiss's recollection. With his memory bolstered by a written record of the conversation, Dulles, chairman of the trustees of the endowment, swore that he had told Hiss he thought he should resign...
...repeatedly said that he will not devalue. Cripps stands on the flat statement; he will not argue. One of his associates explained last week: "It's the unmentionable subject-like a lady's reputation." One man who recently talked devaluation with Cripps adds: "He would resign rather than devalue-and he is not in a resigning mood...
...Broyles Commission, which had been investigating both the University of Chicago and Roosevelt College, let go with the loudest blast of all. It called for the expulsion of any student who might refuse to state whether or not he was a Communist, any teacher who would not resign from a Communist or Communist-front organization. It also recommended that colleges which tolerate "subversive" groups on campus should lose their tax exemption...