Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Administration does not intend to fire Manion, despite his intemperate attacks on opponents of the Bricker amendment. But it is no secret that everyone from the President on down would like to see him resign or else get to work with his commission and quit gold-Brickering...
Tradition, but not law, requires the Premier to resign when a new President takes office. Last week it was agreed that Laniel would tender his resignation this week; that Auriol, with Coty's concurrence, would refuse the resignation and ask the Premier to continue in office; that Laniel would then go before the National Assembly and request a vote of confidence. Many embittered Deputies who would like to bring down the Laniel government might be inclined to wait, knowing that their chance will come in due time and that the next Cabinet crisis, when it happens, will probably...
...interim government. But once in office, his prestige grew rapidly, and he looked like the man Italy needed in this period. Last week he faced his most serious difficulty-dissension in his own party, the Christian Democrats. He decided to force the issue. He announced that he would resign unless he could count on the complete support of his party. Then he sent for his car and asked to be driven to the home of his old friend, ex-Premier Alcide de Gasperi, who is the party's general secretary and is still considered...
...latest collision with Bao Dai occurred when, despite his rebuff from the Nationalists, he backed their demand for negotiations with Ho Chi Minh's Communists. He also demanded measures to strengthen his Cabinet. When the ex-Emperor refused, there was nothing for Tam to do but to resign his post. If the French concur, Bao Dai will probably appoint as Premier his good friend and disciple Prince Buu Loc, 39, a member of the Annamese royal family...
...involved, since the paper's determined crusading makes it a more logical candidate for the prizes than other papers (Publisher Pulitzer stays out of the discussion when the P-D is a candidate). P-D men have won prizes for everything from forcing a corrupt federal judge to resign and the exposure of the Teapot Dome scandals by the late Paul Y. Anderson to a series on the Depression '30s by the late Charles G. Ross, who became President Truman's press secretary after leaving the PD. The paper itself has won five "meritorious public service" Pulitzers...