Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite his protestations of innocence, a gang of Frondizi supporters invaded Gomez' office next day. wrecked furniture, destroyed papers and ordered Gomez to resign. At week's end he put his resignation in Frondizi's hands, and the national oil union decided to postpone its strike threat. Frondizi was still on top. He had lost his dubious Peronista support, and the Mendoza oilworkers were still on strike, but he had gained the prestige of demonstrated firmness...
...generals appeared at the presidential palace, informed Mirza that they had been sent by General Ayub Khan. His message: get out. It was President Mirza's turn to blink, but, nonetheless, he took the blow gamely. "If it is in the interest of the country for me to resign," he said, "I will...
...Landauer '59, head cheerleaders, called the move "a horrible injustice" and "a slap in the face in midseason" to members of his squad. Rather than replace any of the present cheerleaders with students selected by the UAC, he said, all eight members of the squad have decided to resign...
Since an estimated 80% of the 136 Majlis members would be affected by the new law, Deputies had the choice of resigning their seats or giving up their cut. Their dilemma: if they resign, they will no longer have any value to the contractors, who hired them solely because of their chance to influence contracts...
...Abruzzi watched a small procession of cardinals winding up the path to his hermitage, where they kissed his hand and proclaimed him Pope. He protested that he was unequal to the task, but they dragged him off weeping and crowned him Celestine V (they finally permitted him to resign six months later...