Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shigeru Yoshida might yet prove able to outsmart his opponents. He could dissolve the Diet and force a new general election. He might resign in favor of Taketora Ogata, a trusted conservative junior ("my Eden"), and watch matters from the sidelines. His enemies, confident that they can at last strike him down, are nonetheless warily respectful of the old man's political skill...
After their appearance before Jenner both Lubells were forced to resign from the Law School Record, the School's weekly newspaper...
...were going to seize five ports, border towns and airfields near them. From these bases, planes would bomb Costa Rica's defenseless capital, San José. Women in the capital would be stirred up by fifth columnists to parade hysterically to the presidential residence and demand that Figueres resign, to spare his country. His enemies hoped that he would then lose his nerve and turn over his government to a rebel junta...
...death for Brown came when Harry Vaughan told a Washington newspaperman that Harry Truman was for Brown because of Thurmond's 1948 disloyalty to the party (TIME, Nov. i). The vote: Thurmond 139,106, Brown 80,956. After the count, Senator-elect Thurmond renewed a promise: he will resign in 1956 to meet all comers in a proper primary...
Because the 1918 and 1920 Congresses were overwhelmingly Republican, Newberry was allowed to retain membership, even after his conviction and imprisonment following a federal court trial. But when the 1922 elections returned many new Democrats to the Senate, Newberry knew he must resign or be ousted...