Word: resigned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Into Exile. Within 24 hours, the President had plenty to worry about. The commanders of the strong Lima garrison bluntly refused to oppose Odria, advised Bustamante to resign. Scholarly, law-minded Jose Bustamante parried by suggesting that the whole matter be left to the Supreme Court for decision. The soldiers brushed the idea aside. Bustamante knew then that he was finished, but he sat on stubbornly in his grandiose palace on the Plaza de Armas until four officers came to escort him to the Limatambo airfield and Argentine exile...
...soon reiterate his perennial offer to resign because he has "lost the Mandate of Heaven." This time Parliament may take him up on it. To fill such a vacuum, the Communists have scheduled a convention for January to form a democratic front government with the liberals now in the national regime...
Wellesley girls at morning chapel last week sat in unhappy silence when the chairman of the trustees announced Miss Mac's decision to resign-effective whenever a suitable replacement could be lined up for the job. Said Miss Mac in her letter of resignation: "I recommend [the presidency] with unrestrained enthusiasm . . . as stimulating and important as any position I know...
Edward F. Burke '50, speaking for the Democratic Club's executive committee, however, said that Oppenheim could not resign constitutionally because he had "promised" to support Truman and had not informed the Club of his intended action...
Meanwhile, Under Secretary of State Robert Lovett had learned that the President was going ahead with his plan. He telephoned Marshall. Both were outraged. They agreed to tell the President that if he went ahead they would both resign. Lovett drove to the White House, and gave the President his and Marshall's ultimatum...