Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...news of Secretary Byrnes' resignation and of the appointment of General Marshall to fill his place must be received with mixed emotions. After an almost disastrous beginning, Mr. Byrnes had steadily grown up in the job, learning how to be firm but not hostile with the Russians, learning where American self-interest in walking the Bevin chalk line ended and pulling British chestnuts out of the fire began. In a large measure, the over-all success of the recent meeting of the U.N. Assembly in New York is owning to the efforts of a man who it is now revealed...
...Legislative Yuan will have a limited control over the Executive Yuan (Cabinet) and can force its views on the Cabinet, or force the Cabinet to resign, by a two-thirds majority vote...
...Wall Street gossiped that Hughes tried to buy up the entire issue himself at bargain rates, thus cheaply increase his control to around 80%. When the stockholders' meeting was held, Hughes stayed away. Lacking a quorum, other stockholders adjourned. Hughes then demanded that six of the eleven directors resign, let him send in a new team, including a financial vice president. Told off again, he stayed away for the second meeting...
...broke the silence by telling the press that the U.S. had voted for Huxley. (Earlier the Americans had agitated for Francis Biddle, ex-Attorney General of the U.S. and one of the Nürnberg judges.) When the new director-general followed up MacLeish by revealing a promise to resign after two years of his six-year term, observers scented a compromise...
Pick 'em Up. If that was the answer to their blowup, the question for earnest Democratic politicians was what to do next. First of all, they needed someone to start picking up the pieces. National Chairman Bob Hannegan had fled, exhausted, to rest. Presumably he would resign when he came back. Aspiring successors were around, but none of them amounted to much. The chief applicant was fat, genial Robert Kerr, who would be out of his job as Governor of Oklahoma in January...