Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bruening, who was Reichschancellor of Germany from 1930 to 1934, also issued a statement Tuesday saying that he plans to end his 17-year exile from Germany next year and permanently leave the United States. He will also resign his professorship here after the spring term...
...slate, however, is far from perfect. Five of the nine endorsees hold public jobs, and they have not given any indication that they will resign if elected to the City Council. Three are state representatives who will not be through at the State House for at least a year. The other two are in state-appointed jobs, with presumably indefinite tenure. It is possible that these five, if elected today, will have to neglect at least one of the tasks given them by the voters, if not both...
...Marcelle was the sixth collector of Internal Revenue (out of 64 in the U.S.) to resign or be fired or suspended since a certain spring day in 1948. That was the day when a freshman Republican Senator from Delaware, John James Williams, told the Senate in his whispering voice that he had dedicated himself to routing corruption out of the U.S. tax-collecting service...
...duty to seek a fresh mandate from the country, or whenever he thinks it tactically advantageous. Unlike the President of the U.S., who is safe in office for four years (except for impeachable misconduct) even if Congress and the public disapprove of his policies, the British Prime Minister must resign as soon as he loses the confidence of the House of Commons. Clement Attlee actually did not need to seek election again until 1955, but with a shaky parliamentary majority of only six, he obviously thought it would only be a question of time until his government fell-and possibly...
...Several cabinet ministers were about to resign...