Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the presidential plane Columbine landed at Washington last week, the distinguished Frenchmen aboard were far from happy. Premier René Mayer had started the week by threatening to resign, a tactic that persuaded the French Assembly into accepting a new $220 million emergency loan. This delayed the start from Paris, and the plane's pilot had flown through a storm instead of circling it in order to make connections with the Columbine in New York...
...State Department announced that, since the new Administration began, it had rid itself of 21 homosexuals and other bad security risks. In one week, eight sexual deviates and five other security risks had been "separated" from the service. Score since 1947: more than 325 homosexuals fired or forced to resign after the department found them bad risks...
With weeping fits, fainting spells, petulant threats to resign, and swift strokes of summary statesmanship, Iran's Premier Mossadegh for nearly two turbulent years had manipulated all before him-the Parliament, the popular will, and the earnest but weak Shah. Last week, the young (33) Shah of Shahs spilled some tears himself, and it was fanatical old Mohammed Mossadegh who had to gasp for breath and fight for his political life...
...stage whisper, Mossadegh complained of court intrigues, threatened to resign and "go to the people" for a showdown. As it had before, the threat won him an invitation to talk it over with the Shah. For four hours the fiery old demagogue and the uncertain young monarch conferred. Quickly the secret got out-Mossadegh had persuaded the Shah to leave Iran-ostensibly for a vacation, possibly as the first step toward abdication...
Last week, five years after the archbishop's summons, Bishop Barnes, 78, announced that he would resign his office in May and retire with his wife to the country. His reason: ill health...