Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shifted tactics. Shortly before the Chamber of Deputies was to pass final verdict on his government, he announced: "No matter what the results of the voting are, I shall subtract from the total the votes of the Fascists. Then if I remain short of the required majority I shall resign...
...Lincoln limousine sped south, bound for the rambling Cambodian seaside resort of Kep, 90 miles away by the green waters of the Gulf of Siam. Inside the big car, lonely and unhappy, sat cherub-faced Norodom Sihanouk, who gave up his throne to serve as Premier and had already resigned the premiership three times in less than two years. Behind him in Pnompenh Prince Sihanouk left with his father, King Suramarit, a statement of his intention to resign for the fourth time...
...which we could not in fact carry through." Lord Salisbury, said Halifax, was a member of the government which launched the Suez invasion, "and if he was-as no doubt he was-a convinced believer in that action, I should have thought that the right time for him to resign was when those gears were put into reverse. I cannot see what is gained now by an attempt on his part to find fault with his late colleagues for making the best...
...Frederick Marcus Farwell, 50, resigned as president and chief executive officer of ailing (first-quarter deficit: $624,978) typewriter-maker Underwood Corp., moved on to a new job as an executive vice president of International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. Chicago-born, Yale-educated ('28) Farwell was an executive at International Business Machines and waxmaker S. C. Johnson & Son before taking over Underwood's presidency in 1955 with the job of reorganizing the company from top to bottom. When the company continued to lose money and Underwood's board of directors turned down a proposed merger with National Cash...
...Shanghai long-leashed newsmen publicly demanded that they be given "facilities" to report "actual situations" in the local bureaucracy, and in Peking emboldened students called for the withdrawal of the Communist control group in Peking University. (This development so unnerved the university's dean that he threatened to resign.) Meantime, all over China party dignitaries dutifully turned to toil. At one collective farm 33 generals and 127 field-grade officers suddenly appeared and pitched in to help flabbergasted peasants with the weeding and manure-hauling. In the capital itself Minister of Marine Products Hsu Teh-heng, 63, spent...