Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Urge to Run Just back from an 8:30 a.m. appointment with the President, Leonard Hall called his Republican National Committee staff together one day last week to read off an announcement: he had decided to resign as national committee chairman. "You're a great crew!" Hall boomed. Called a female voice: "You're a great boss...
...time-Rakosi cut off his opponents. Kovacs was sent to Siberia (where, after nearly nine years, he was released a few months ago). In 1947, with his four-year-old son held hostage, the Smallholders' Premier Ferenc Nagy, the last hope of a free Hungary, was forced to resign and flee into exile...
Last July, after nearly a decade of Red tyranny, Rakosi himself was forced to resign as party boss after a youth club in Budapest proclaimed openly that "it is high time an end be made to this regime of bureaucrats and gendarmes." Three months later that wish came to reality with the fury of gunfire in Budapest's streets...
...would comply with the U.N.'s demands, and the utility of a U.N. which could win nothing but moral victories over the U.S.S.R. was increasingly in doubt. Bitterly French Foreign Minister Christian Pineau told the General Assembly: "The U.N. must decide to impose its decisions on everyone or resign itself to impose them...
Then, under its youthful-looking new President Duncan Ballantine, Reed ran into a crisis. In trying to tighten his administration, Ballantine so antagonized faculty and students that he finally had to resign (TIME, Oct. 18, 1954). At that point, Reed desperately asked Griff to come back and take over...