Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anibal Rios, who had been third vice president under totalitarian-minded President Arnulfo Arias, had refused to resign from the office when another coup less than two months earlier replaced playboy Arias with pro-U.S. President de la Guardia (TIME...
Secretary Morrison finally prevented a vote on the amendment, kept his powers, by the shrewd strategy of threatening to resign, making it appear that a negative vote could be construed as a vote against the Churchill Government...
...declaration of war and strong support to Britain, rabidly anti-British groups in Quebec called him "Judas Lapointe." Tory imperialists claimed that he and Mackenzie King purposely slowed up the war effort. But when the chips were down in 1940, Ernest Lapointe's threat to resign if Quebec did not back the Government's war policy did more than anything else to drive the antiwar Nationale (Lapointe called it Nazionale) Party of Maurice Duplessis out of office...
Both men expressed concern over the possibility of their internment, though Tsurumi, as a student of philosophy, adopted the philosophic attitude. "If it has to be done," he declared. "I shall resign myself to it willingly, I am willing to take whatever comes...
Ascending from an English Instructorship here to a full professorship and the title of head of the English Department at Michigan State College, Lansing, Michigan, David Worcester '28, will resign his University position and assume his new office at the beginning of the Christmas vacation, it was learned last night...