Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President left it squarely up to Adams to decide his future. If Adams applied his own rules, he could logically reach no other conclusion than that he should resign...
...Senate spokesman for the Administration and the Republican Party, California's Minority Leader William Fife Knowland has an apparently incurable habit of throwing his burly body in the way of Administration proposals. He persisted in his ways even after he became a half-lame duck by deciding to resign from the Senate and run for Governor of California next November. And his poor showing in California's popularity-poll primaries last fortnight failed to subdue him. Hours after he got back to Washington he blocked the Administration on the issue of aid to Communist satellites (TIME, June...
...dollars. Since World War II's end he has taken over and built up a onetime iron works into the Joshua Hendy Corp., which operates a fleet of 40 to 50 tankers and cargo ships. To avoid conflict of interest with his AEC job, McCone has agreed to resign from Hendy and dispose of conflicting business holdings...
...hands by proposing that if he wanted to change the French constitution, he would have to have Assembly approval before his plan could be submitted to popular referendum. The manner in which De Gaulle beat off this threat-he rushed over to the Assembly and threatened to resign on the spot-was out of his old bag of tricks. He got his powers at 12:30 a.m., and by a 350 to 163 vote. Since this was a three-fifths majority, he was free to submit his new constitution directly to the people...
...unprecedented message to France's Parliament, President René Coty, 76, threatened to resign unless the Assembly accepted De Gaulle as Premier...