Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Women & Children Last. From now until the military situation eases, civilians must resign themselves to being unwanted guests on Britain's highly developed, overburdened railway system. From day to day no one can be sure which trains are running; the only information available will be chalked up on station boards...
Socialist Greenwood had just lost a fight to expel Nye Bevan from the Party for a revolt against the topside line. He had even threatened to resign if Bevan were upheld. But on the showdown Greenwood had to eat his threat. Defiant Nye Bevan, a onetime Welsh miner and long a loud voice for Labor's militant left, had won a significant victory...
...including Ford of Canada's plant across the river at Windsor, Ont.) was having more than foreman trouble. About 22,000 of the area's U.A.W.-C.I.O. workers, disgruntled for a wide variety of reasons, walked out. Union officials pleaded with the wildcat strikers, cajoled, threatened to resign. WLB sent stern back-to-work orders. Most of Detroit's strikers gave in. But at week's end the score stood: 17,500 workers still out, three plants shut down...
...Then," said Pierlot, "we will resign...
...Prime Minister's office on Downing Street a hurried parley took place. Under Britain's system of Government responsibility to Parliament, Winston Churchill could do one of four things: 1) call for a vote of Parliamentary confidence; 2) fire Minister Butler; 3) resign himself; 4) get the King's permission to "go to the country," i.e., ask Britons to decide the issue at a general election...