Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After looking at your Aug. 4 pictures of the Baghdad victims, I have decided to resign from the human race...
...Gaulle proposed. The parliamentary committee itself-led by De Gaulle's old friend, 79-year-old Paul Reynaud, and composed entirely of men who had voted De Gaulle to power-voted against De Gaulle's Article 21, which requires any member of the Assembly to resign if made a Cabinet minister. They also had objections to the emergency dictatorial powers given to the President in Article 14. "The constitution," huffed one ex-Premier, who apparently has no doubt as to who the first President of the Fifth Republic will be, "should not be written for De Gaulle...
Some Lebanese Christians feared that the rebels might get their way, and Premier Sami Solh, who narrowly escaped assassination earlier in the week (see below), angrily threatened to resign. Yet in the face of popular pressure for peace, and the fact that President Nasser seemed willing to settle for Chehab, the opposition probably could not keep up resistance much longer...
...final damper on the Assembly, the Fifth Republic would be ruled by a double-headed executive. Under the terms of the De Gaulle constitution, France would still have a Premier responsible to Parliament, but his ministers would have to resign their parliamentary seats. And over all would be a President elected for seven years, and with powers greater in some respects than those of the President of the U.S. He would be elected by the combined votes of Parliament, the members of the colonial assemblies, representatives of France's municipal councils, and other bodies, a grouping so weighted that...
PAINTER HENRI ROUSSEAU (1844-1910) was the son of a tinsmith, became a customs officer and started in art as a Sunday painter. In middle age he developed enough confidence to resign from the customs (now it would be "Sunday all week long"). He lived on a tiny pension, in a one-room studio, but he did not mind the cramped quarters because, when he woke up in the morning, he could "smile a little at his paintings." His now famed works suggested the bright but prim world of a precocious child, its whims ranging from shaggy liona to mustached...