Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proper for a man who has flouted elementary justice to hold such an important post," cried Nikita. Hammarskjold listened, immobile, his hands folded against his chin. Then, pursing his lips, he fairly spat his reply: "This may seem to provide a strong reason why I should resign . . . [but] by resigning I would at the present difficult and dangerous juncture throw the organization to the winds...
Consensus is that disappointed Labor Premier Einar Gerhardsen will soon resign, but that the Labor Party will manage to hang on. Likely compromise: Laborite Nils Langhelle, president of the Storting, will take over a minority government with tacit conservative support. One thing was certain: in view of the pressing problem of Common Market entry and Norway's vital role in NATO, neither Labor nor the other old-line parties want to give the fellow-traveling upstarts a chance to play the balance-of-power game...
Lumbago-lamed at his Texas ranch, Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, 79, reported that he was still "hurting some" but expected to be "jumping around soon." Sure enough, two days later, when grilled about rumors that he might resign the speakership-a post he has held twice as long as any predecessor-Mister Sam started jumping, gaveled down the motion with one word: "Idiocy...
...office with a visiting publisher, pointed through the window at the round modern dome at the end of the Congress Building. "If I could tear that down, Brazil would be better governed," he said. Three weeks ago he told an aide that he had a good mind to resign when Congress, after allowing 19 Quadros vetoes to stand, overruled Veto No. 20. "He was furious," says the aide...
...machine-tooled politics who as a youth attached himself to County Judge Harry S. Truman, followed him to Washington as a member of his Senate staff, masterminded Truman's upset victory in the 1948 presidential campaign, the following year became chairman of the Democratic National Committee only to resign in 1951 after a Senate investigation grudgingly absolved him of direct personal involvement in influence peddling; in his sleep; in Washington. During the 1948 campaign, Boyle conceived both Truman's vote-winning whistle-stop strategy and the concentration on Ohio and Illinois that carried the pivotal and previously written...