Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President of France was forced to resign because his son-in-law was selling Legion appointments foi $3,000 apiece. One Premier of the Third Republic, Pierre-Maurice Rou-vier, casually made his mistress' husband a Legionnaire because "of the special services rendered to me by his wife." Once when he was having bad luck fishing, legend has it, Author Henri Murger (La Vie de Boheme) baited his hook with his scarlet ribbon and said: "Now they are sure to bite. This is something everyone likes...
Died. Richard Alfred Mack, 54, former Federal Communications Commissioner, who was forced to resign in 1958 over a scandal involving the FCC award of Miami's Channel 10 to National Airlines (Senate investigators charged that he had taken "loans" from National's lawyer), after which his longtime alcoholism reached the point where he was unable to stand trial for fraud, lived his last years in and out of hospitals and on handouts; in Miami, where police found his body in a Skid Row room five to eight days after death, presumably of cirrhosis of the liver...
...Newman reports the scene, Diefenbaker raged at this "nest of traitors," pounded the table and demanded that all his supporters stand up. When nine ministers remained seated, he was stunned. Then he turned away muttering, "I resign...
...turbulent French political scene usually stay around to enjoy the calm. The two Napoleons lasted quite a while, as did Louis XIV. Charles DeGaulle, the present president of the French, shows no signs of folding early. Elected to a seven-year term in 1958, the General reportedly intends to resign shortly to seek immediate re-election. Should de Gaulle be successful at the polls again, his term would run roughly until 1970--a total tenure of twelve years. In a country whose people can scarcely remember a chief of state who lasted twelve months, de Gaulle's reign would represent...
...none of these things, causing the Atlanta Constitution's Publisher Ralph McGill, himself an Episcopalian, to resign from the cathedral, snorting "Utter hypocrisy" to an interviewer from the Atlanta church's monthly newspaper The Diocese. McGill's words never got into print, for a right-hand man of the bishop rushed to The Diocese's print shop after the press run was over, gave orders that the entire issue be destroyed and a new one distributed without the interview...