Word: resignations
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...have agreed that major issues must be decided by a unanimous vote-a kind of Laotian troika. Four Cabinet posts (including Economics and Information) go to the Communists, and four others (including Finance and Education) to Phoumi's antiCommunists. Phoumi's longtime ally. Prince Boun Oum. will resign as Premier and retire from active politics to his meaningless lifetime post as Inspector General of the realm. The remaining eleven Cabinet posts go to Souvanna and his neutralist supporters...
...attended Punahou, Honolulu's exclusive private school. Though he said he went on from there to the Sorbonne and Oxford (and cultivated a British accent to prove it), he actually had his only known brush with higher education at the University of Hawaii, was obliged to resign from the army in 1943 "for the good of the service." His most notable accomplishments since: a two-year stretch in the Philippines' New Bilibid Prison and a four-year sentence to Leavenworth-both for passing bad checks. In between, he had acted as genealogy columnist for the Honolulu Advertiser under...
Argentina's President Arturo Frondizi was known more for his political nimbleness than for his determination. But rarely has a Latin American President clung so courageously to his elected office in the face of such overwhelming opposition. For eleven days, Argentina's dominant military demanded his resignation as the "best patriotic solution to maintain the constitutional structure of the nation." Frondizi's reply was always the same: "I do not resign, nor will I resign." At last, led by a tough army general named Raul Poggi, the military physically removed the constitutional President of the land...
...California, Republicans have no effective state organization, take their ideological differences seriously, and tend to feud like Democrats. Last week Dick Nixon was censured by Los Angeles Young Republicans for his demand that Republicans resign from the ultraconservative John Birch Society. In trying to defeat Democratic Governor Pat Brown, Nixon must build his own organization, win votes from thousands of registered Democrats. But, like Incumbent Republican Senator Tom Kuchel, he is given a better-than-even chance...
...that appointments to the federal bench carry lifetime tenure, the crusading author of the "clean politics" act that has immortalized his name in U.S. politics still hoped to give his fellow judges an occasional helping hand in court. Said he with judicial precision: "When I retired, I did not resign." - On an inspection tour of Dublin's newest national monument- a restoration of Kilmainham Jail that epitomized British domination - Eire's President Eamon de Valera, 79, came not as a stranger. "The Long Fella" himself was the last prisoner to stride from behind its walls into the dawn...