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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tried to stay neutral in the behind-the-scenes struggle, suffered a mild heart attack and went on sick leave. In keeping with the constitution, Chamber of Deputies Speaker Carlos Luz, suspected of golpista sympathies, took over as Acting President. On Nov. 10 Luz forced General Lott to resign. Lett's successor, a golpista army general, was waiting in the next room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: The Man from Minas | 2/13/1956 | See Source »

Only one member of Segni's administration. Treasury Minister Silvio Gava, was spoilsport enough to ask where the money was to come from. When he got no satisfactory answer to his question, Gava threatened to resign, and was only talked out of it with some difficulty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Insolvent Solution | 2/6/1956 | See Source »

...government they dominated provoked the massacre. Moving to the kill, Lechin got up a convention resolution denouncing Guevara for "inexact and tendentious statements." Siles, who could lose the next election without Lechin's support, signed it; so did Paz Estenssoro. Guevara had no choice but to resign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: Left Turn | 1/30/1956 | See Source »

Hastings stayed on anyway, and was even held over for a few years when he sought to resign. This was more for his politics than his provender, however; the Overseers refused to accept the Corporation's replacement because he sympathized with the British, a fault which Hastings, for all his love of Irish butter, didn't have. Indeed, from 1771 on, the Gambrel-roofed house had rung with patriotic oratory, as members of the Speakers' Club, flanked by six candles and using a piece of two by four as a rostrum, declaimed weekly against the British...

Author: By Samuel B. Potter, | Title: Holmes House | 1/27/1956 | See Source »

Levin took office last September after Richard L. Dodds '56 was forced to resign because of illness. Dodds had replaced John Green '56, who dropped the position because of difficulties in schedule...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Picks Abramson as '56 President | 1/10/1956 | See Source »

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