Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will be up to Minnesota's Democratic Governor Karl Rolvaag to appoint someone to complete the remaining two years of Humphrey's Senate term. Rolvaag could resign and take the job himself, but he is well aware that voters often show their displeasure later at such self-promotion. The most likely prospect seems to be Walter ("Fritz") Mondale, 36, the state's attorney general and the brightest of a stable of bright young men awaiting a shot at bigger things in the party. He has behind-the-scene support from Humphrey...
...uprising. Then last week, the army's crack Ingavi Regiment revolted in La Paz-and rebellion flamed through garrisons all around the country. From his home town of Cochabamba, where he had gone to avoid Paz, Barrientos openly denounced the President as ruthless and called on him to resign...
There has been talk of ousting Goldwater's handpicked National Chairman, Dean Burch. If he can be forced to resign (technically he cannot be voted out of office), moderation will have won a symbolic victory. Regardless of what happens to Burch, however, Goldwater is finished as a powerful figure in the party. He doesn't have the ability to retain power behind the scenes, and he is too much of a liability to display publicly...
...half to abandon his "crappy job," in the words of one reporter. Hodges, whom Johnson does not consider energetic enough to cope with the problems of compliance with the Public Accommodations section of the Civil Rights Law and the Area Redevelopment Act, will reportedly be asked to resign. Buford Ellington, ex-Governor of Tennessee and a personal friend of Johnson, may become Secretary of Agriculture, while Frank Stanton, President of CBS, seems first in line for Commerce...
...work only part time. Yet he insists on making all decisions and continues to run the Jamaica Labor Party as absolute-and sometimes capricious-boss. Recently two of his senators failed to vote for a government bill making flogging mandatory in rape sentences. An enraged Bustamante ordered them to resign. They...