Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...uprising of 1921. Mussolini put him in jail for eleven years. In the wartime Italian resistance he was captured by the Fascists, escaped a firing squad at Verona. He became a Communist Senator and mayor of industrial Turin (pop. 726,618). Then in 1946 he was instructed to resign as mayor, and became instead secretary-general of the powerful, Communist-run Metallurgical Workers Union, whose biggest branch is Italy's biggest employer, the Fiat automotive works...
Last week Clem Attlee announced his decision to a meeting of the Labor M.P.s: he would definitely resign at the end of the present session of the House in. July 1956. Up leaped Bevan himself. "No!" cried Bevan. "Clem, I implore you not to fix a time for your departure." It would only encourage rivalries just when the party needed to draw its warring factions together, he pleaded. Bevan added quietly: "I have no personal ambitions for leadership at this moment . . . I have no intention of forcing a contest...
...argument get to a vote, and Parliament doggedly overruled him 50-48 (with two members absent). There was nothing else to do. Premier Willem Drees, the ex-stenographer who had run The Netherlands for six uninterrupted years on a welfare-state platform, trotted off to the Queen to resign...
...friendship before Board Chairman Avery inevitably fired the veep for "disloyalty." To keep his tight control of the mammoth retail company for 24 years, Avery fired dozens of other executives he suspected of undermining him. Last week the plot that Avery always imagined actually happened. He was forced to resign under pressure of a palace revolution led by a majority of his own board of directors. On hearing the news, Wall Street showed how it felt about Avery. A wave of frenzied buying forced the New York Stock Exchange to suspend trading in Montgomery Ward stock for nearly an hour...
...pressure grew too great for Avery. His doctor and his two daughters begged him to resign. The directors instructed Barr to call a special meeting of the board, prepared a resignation for Avery to sign. At the board meeting the expected bitter showdown did not occur...