Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three elections since 1950, were slipping in popular esteem. Even President Celal Bayar was worried enough to urge Menderes to consider seeking peace with the opposition Republicans. But the Premier was still tough. Cried Menderes, in a speech at Izmir: "These street demonstrations of children will not make me resign." This week, to get the children off the streets, he ordered all colleges and universities in Ankara and Istanbul closed till fall...
...Resign! Resign!" Shocked, Menderes tried to stand his ground. With arms outstretched, he called out: "Why do you do this? What do you want?" "Resign! Resign!" shouted the crowd. One student clutched him by the arm and asked: "How long do we suffer at your hands?" The Premier slapped his face, then grabbed him by the waist and called police to take him away. Hair rumpled and necktie askew, Menderes raised his arms again and shouted: "Why don't you kill me?" "No, we don't want to kill you. Resign! Resign!" yelled the crowd. "Then kill...
...with an independent income from land, Huh belongs to no political party, and between government jobs devotes himself to reading and study. When Rhee finally stepped down last week, Huh argued that as Rhee's appointee (he had just returned to the Cabinet as Foreign Secretary), he should resign, too. Persuaded to stay on as caretaker chief of state, he insists that he will not be a candidate for either the presidency or the premiership...
Cutting the Bridges. The cops began shooting in earnest, and some 20 students dropped. One student column surged toward Menderes' Istanbul headquarters. "Menderes must resign!" they shouted. "Death to all dictators!" Along the way they spotted and wrecked the lucklessly named "Menderes Drugstore." Tanks and troops headed them off. By opening drawbridges, the authorities stopped another column from crossing the Golden Horn into the heart of the city. The government proclaimed martial law. All Istanbul's cafés, bars and nightclubs were closed. The university was shut down. The military governor banned any mention of the events...
President Juscelino Kubitschek. creator of Brasilia, was enraged. To the Health Minister he snapped, "If you don't return, you'd better resign." To his Labor Minister he said: "Better show up here soon." When there were still only five Ministers for a Cabinet session, Kubitschek passed the word to all hooky players: "I'm accepting resignations." Back came the Cabinet-eight by week's end. Kubitschek pressured the Senate into returning May 16, ordered every Institute president to the capital within eight days, and decreed a full eight-hour working day for Brasilia...