Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although he swore that he would not resign, the General had lost more face than he could spare. Finally he stomped in to see the disturbed Regent, old Archbishop Damaskinos. Behind closed doors, angry voices grappled. The bearded Archbishop, who in his day had wrestled men as well as souls, would not be thrown. The General screamed: "Tragos!" ("Billy goat!"). Then he stomped out and resigned...
...Nationalist Socialist tide rose, and ill-timed tax measures of the ministry were used by the opposition to secure unfavorable mob opinions. Finally, in May, 1932, Hitler grew so strong that Professor Bruening was forced to resign as Chancellor and to devote himself to teaching...
...angry column marched to the Viminale (Government headquarters). There a delegation of its leaders, including Unità's fiery Editor Velio Spano, who is also a member of the Communist Party's Central Executive Committee, handed Premier Ivanoe Bonomi an ultimatum: immediate and drastic reforms, or resign. Said Bonomi: "This is no time for me to desert...
Hurriedly the Premier called his four-party (Christian Democrat, Labor Democrat, Liberal, Communist) Cabinet into session. Then Foreign Minister Alcide de Gasperi, chief of the Christian Democrats, handed Vice Premier Palmiro Togliatti. boss Communist, an ultimatum: call off the Communist attack on the Government, or resign. But the Communist Party ordered Togliatti not to resign...
...Hook had the last word. Said he: "If John Rankin would resign his seat, I'd be happy to go with him-for the good of the country." Rankin, for once, held his tongue...