Word: resigned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Earl got himself elected lieutenant governor in 1936. When Governor Richard Leche was forced to resign in the heat of one of Louisiana's many scandals, Earl stepped into the governor's chair. He ran again but was not reelected...
Mackenzie King would not say, in so many words, "I resign." He could not risk spending seven months as a lame duck. He 'could not forget that some crisis might keep him in office. But barring the unforeseeable, Mackenzie King would shortly lay down his stewardship...
...rate, a month after the season's end ill health forced Coach Richard Greason Harlow to resign after 23 years as Harvard's mentor. His successor will have quite...
...professor examined her textbook, and decided that it was not. The Diocese of Cleveland agreed. The professor told Baldwin-Wallace's 163 Catholic students that they must resign from the college. "If my doctor tells me to eat beef," he explained, "and a waiter in a restaurant says he has only pork, I don't stay and fight with him. I just walk out." By week's end 65 Catholic students had packed their bags and left...
...know how I over was elected president," murmured Stu Bottle '50, "because we were too apathetic to held an election. But I guess I'll have to stay in office. I'm too apathetic to resign, and even if I did, the members would be too lazy to accept my resignation...