Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...successor feels shaky. And Montana State College's President R. R. Renne seems to be in even deeper trouble. In January, the regents gave him a year's leave of absence to serve as U.S. Assistant Secretary of Agriculture. In April, Democrat Renne got a "return or resign" ultimatum from Governor Tim Babcock, a conservative Republican. Renne refused, but the regents are expected to fire him when he returns next year...
Beaverbrook's chosen champion was melancholy Bonar Law, a fellow Canadian who as leader of the Tory Party in 1916 had helped bring Lloyd George to power, only to resign four years later. Ailing and self-effacing, Law was a reluctant matador. But by suasion and sly pressure, Beaverbrook finally maneuvered his hero into the famed Carlton Club meeting at which Law captained a revolt of Tory M.P.s that dissolved the coalition and toppled the Big Beast. Though Law won the election, he was Prime Minister for only seven months-and confounded his eminence grise by rejecting Beaverbrook...
...Lloyd George explodes: "Damn the King! Saturday is the only day I have to play golf." When the King suggests that Monday will do as well, his Prime Minister exclaims: "God bless His Majesty." One of Beaverbrook's best disclosures is that the old radical was willing to resign as Prime Minister if he could become editor of the conservative London Times "at a decent salary and with a decent contract...
...weapon, continued the hush-up begun by Jackson and Szili. Jackson was denied a court-martial; its findings would have been public. Instead, Jackson, with only 18 months to go before completing 20 years of service and becoming eligible for a pension of $260 a month, was forced to resign from the Corps. So were Szili and two other officers who had helped bury Lopez. Jackson, said Szili, has made no public complaint because "he is a very patriotic man and I think probably he doesn't want to do anything that might hurt his country...
Crystal Balls. What on earth did Khrushchev mean? Was he about to resign as Premier of the nation, First Secretary of the Communist Party, or both? Had he lost out in a back-room power struggle? Or was he merely trying to smooth the way for a possible successor? If the public was baffled, so were the free world's Kremlinologists, that tight little band of experts who spend half their time reading between Pravda's lines and half peering into their crystal balls...