Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...diplomatic blunder. The President was all ready to go on the air and announce that he was sending Chief Justice Vinson to Moscow to reason with Stalin. Lovett heard about the plan, telephoned General Marshall in Paris, and confronted Truman with a joint ultimatum that both of them would resign if the plan went through...
Nehru was hitting back at his political enemies. By last week, it was clear that they had overreached themselves when they tried to break his hold on the All-India Congress Party (TIME, July 30) and caused him to resign from the party's Working Committee (a sort of Congress Party Politburo). Giddy with what looked like victory, Party President Purushottamdas Tandon, who controls the largely corrupt Congress political machine, violently attacked and insulted Nehru. He had reckoned without Nehru's tremendous popularity with the Indian masses...
...veterans whooping when he offered to take his case against Acheson and Jessup "to a jury of twelve men and twelve women . . . if the President's spokesmen can find a way to get them into court." If the jury found McCarthy's charges untrue, he would resign from the Senate, said he, provided that, if the jury agreed with him, "that whole motley crowd will resign...
...night, dressed in a severe black suit and a high-necked black blouse, she took microphone in hand. In a voice trembling with emotion, hoarse and strained, she said: "I want to communicate an irrevocable and definite decision to my people, a decision I have taken by myself, to resign the noted honor given me by the open forum of the 22nd...
...nickname is "Slap & Tickle Dick," was not tickled. He snapped: "I am not a great believer in bargaining." Still, Mediator Harriman persevered. He saw the young Shah, who is reasonable but ineffectual. The Shah himself tried to conciliate Mossadeq, who finally blew up, said: "Do you want me to resign?" There it was; the Shah had to back down. The fact was that the oil dispute, which stretched back 20 years, had become for Iranians a cause beyond common sense. They desperately needed British technicians, and they could not possibly get along without British marketing...