Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this "special" educational dispensation, the income requirement should be kept at $56 (which excludes all but a handful of top Negro wage earners) and that the enrollment of "special" voters should not be permitted to exceed 20% of the total electoral roll. Faced with Todd's threat to resign if they balked, the legislators surrendered...
Divorced. By John Selwyn Brooke Lloyd, 52, Britain's Foreign Secretary (the first Cabinet Minister to obtain a divorce while in office without having to resign): Elizabeth Marshall Lloyd, 29, his former secretary; after six years of marriage (two of separation), one child; grounds: adultery, in an uncontested action; in London...
...constitutional contention, Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent was left with two choices: to resign immediately, or to hang on and face a test in the House. A group of Liberal ministers, hopeful that the government could win small-party support, desperately tried to persuade him to stay on. But the aging (75) Prime Minister was resolved to resign and let John Diefenbaker become Prime Minister of Canada...
...parliamentary tellers announced that they had carelessly counted as abstainers two Deputies who had actually voted against Zoli. If he continued to spurn Fascist support, anti-Fascist Adone Zoli appeared to be one vote short of a majority. Jeered the Fascist Il Secolo d'ltalia: "Now he must resign because of the Fascist vote-how humiliating-or continue to govern because of the Fascist vote-how shameful...
This was gratifying news for President Hernán Siles Zuazo, who has backed the program with everything from a hunger strike to threats to resign, and for George Jackson Eder, an old Latin America hand who left International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. to supervise Bolivia's National Monetary Stabilization Council. But Juan Lechin, executive secretary of the powerful workers' confederation, was looking out for labor and labor alone. At the confederation's second congress last week, he burst into an impassioned defense of the featherbedding privileges that the workers took for their own after bringing the Nationalist...