Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...assembled colons drowned him: "Assassin!" "Dirty Jew!" "Get out!" Madame Duval got up to leave. A chaplain next to her pulled her back down. "If you go, blood will be spilled." Grandval finished his speech, but as he drove away, the boos and jeers mingled with shouts of "Resign, resign...
...head. Through the years, the police of four states schemed, connived and risked their lives to collect it, but Man Singh was always too quick for them. Last year, after Man Singh slipped through his fingers once again, Narasinghrao Dixit, the home minister of Madhya Bharat province, vowed to resign if he failed to trap the notorious dacoit within a year...
Strongman Juan Perón changed his Foreign Minister and shook up his police command last week, leading some observers to think they smelled the smoke of a flaming crisis. One rumor even had it that Perón himself might resign the next day. But there was no flare-up, only the volcanic smoke and rumbles normal to Perón's Argentina...
...South Carolina prosecuting attorney, Peurifoy was neither rich nor Ivy League. He had to resign from West Point in his second year, after his father's death. Starting out in Washington as a $90-a-month elevator operator in the House of Representatives, he soon got a job as a clerk in State and rose rapidly. Catching George Marshall's eye, he was made Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Administration, the department's No. 3 job. He was personally popular on the Hill when the State Department was not. He was good at getting appropriations...
...Austin that he was abandoning his long struggle to keep Good Friend Morrow on the committee. "Certainly," he said, the national committee is "entitled to have a national committeeman who is friendly to the work" they are doing. Morrow could not swallow that. An hour after urging him to resign, he said, the governor "made a speech crying that he would never bend a knee to the will of the national committee. Well, why in God's name does he expect me to bend a knee to the same bunch...