Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...elect Franklin Roosevelt just three weeks ago, is as yet unwilling to train its oratorical guns on him. At the C.I.O. convention, Phil Murray concentrated on lesser fry, primarily WLBster George Taylor, who devised Little Steel. Said Murray: "We have been aware of your machinations." Mend your ways or "resign your...
...five times Minister of Finance; in Mamers, France. Son of a millionaire (who was himself Minister of Finance), aristocratic, dictatorial Joseph Caillaux, in 1911, appeased Germany in a secret negotiation, ceding part of the French Congo to the Kaiser for a free French hand in Morocco, was forced to resign his premiership. Blazing because of Le Figaro's attacks on Caillaux and the public reprinting of their love letters, his second wife put five bullets into Le Figaro's Editor Gaston Calmette, was acquitted of murder in time to see her husband convicted of "dealing with the enemy...
Before the Premier's office in Brussels unarmed Resistance men & women shouted: "Resign!" Before the Parliament Buildings, guarded by gendarmes with fixed bayonets, marched noisy hecklers. Despite the ban on mass rallies, excited crowds assembled in the Cirque Royal, tumultuously cheered the Communist ex-ministers, denounced the Government measures against the Resistance movement...
...State Department victory. But the State Department had not reckoned with Juan Domingo Perón. He put himself at the head of the extreme nationalists in the Army who felt that Argentine honor had been smirched because Ramirez had yielded to foreign pressure. Ramirez was forced to resign. Vice President Edelmiro Farrell, Perón's old friend and front man, moved up to the Presidency. Perón, stronger than ever, became Minister of War. The State Department's pressure play had simply increased Perón's power...
Frank Walker, long weary of Washington, might resign the Postmaster Generalship, leaving the way clear for the customary political gesture: appointment of National Chairman Bob Hannegan as P.M.G...