Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...celebrated criticism of Nehru is that he resembles India's banyan tree, which proverbially kills every other organism that grows in its shade. In the wake of three parliamentary by-election defeats last spring, Nehru announced that he would ask a dozen top Cabinet and state ministers to resign from the government in order to let them go to work revitalizing the party organization and rebuilding its strength among the voters. But the Kamaraj* plan was really used by the Prime Minister as a ruse to flush out all the top contenders for his own job. There is even...
...Lacerda the Guanabara governorship. No sooner was Quadros in office, however, than Lacerda was at him again, ripping Quadros for his left-leaning foreign policy and accusing him of attempting to set up a dictatorship. Most Brazilians think that Lacerda's attacks led the erratic Quadros to resign after barely seven months in office...
This was connection enough for Lovett's headmaster, the Rev. James McDowell. He promptly resigned, saying, "The church has spoken on the matter of segregation, and it is my duty, so long as I am a priest, to adhere to its teachings." At the same time, the Rt. Rev. Randolph Claiborne, Jr., Bishop of Atlanta, declared that the trustees' actions "have forfeited the right of implied or official support for the Lovett School by the Episcopal Church." But to many, the bishop's words seemed hollow, since he had hardly exhausted opportunities for bringing pressure...
...also surprised to learn that I engineered a "plot" which "forced" Jeff Fraxier to resign. The alleged plot consisted of Jeff's stating that he would resign if our Club invited Governor Wallace to speak at Harvard alone. The majority of our Executive Committee and a majority of our members decided to extend such an invitation. That this course of events should be construed as a coup d'etat or a plot to overthrow is, at best, an unjournalistic attempt to stretch a point...
Eisenhower reports that he had no knowledge of the phone call Thomas E. Dewey made to Vice-Presidential Candidate Richard Nixon before Nixon's famed "Checkers" broadcast defending the "secret fund" raised for him by California businessmen. Dewey urged that Nixon resign, and Ike admits that "the young Senator" feared that Dewey was speaking...