Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fortunately the eleven-day Easter recess of Parliament was just about to begin -and that gave France a breather. After consulting President Lebrun, Premier Reynaud & Cabinet decided not to resign, to try over Easter to pacify partisan passions and negotiate a solid Chamber majority...
Last week the Diet told Takao Saito to resign. Commentators considered it most important to note that despite Japan's internal crisis, the Army still had so much influence. But far more important was what the tipsters were saying: Saito is out but not down. He will almost certainly be re-elected in 1941. And then defiant Lord Mouse is expected to show that the cat has not got his tongue...
...anxiety to get off the bench, Justice Murphy last week let politicos in his home State of Michigan know that he 1) would like to have the Democratic nomination for Vice President, 2) would resign like a shot if they started a boom...
...race-track stock for the purpose of improving animal husbandry. And Minister of Education Rudecindo Ortega got himself mixed up in a row between Radicals and Socialists at a professors-&-teachers convention last month. These scandals gave Radical Leader Durán his opportunity to order all Radicals to resign from the Cabinet, to give Don Tinto "freedom of action...
...Radicals resigned in a body last week. The supposition was that the three Socialist and two Democratic members of the Cabinet would also resign, giving Don Tinto a chance to name a brand-new Ministry. The plan failed to click. The Socialists promptly announced that their Ministers would stay and the Communists demanded from Don Tinto an assurance of loyalty to the Popular Front. Don Tinto, honest friend of the working man, gave it. Pinched between his conservative and radical supporters, he reappointed two of the three untainted Radical members of his Cabinet, replaced the three scandal-smeared members with...