Word: resigned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many of whom went to jail with him in the long struggle for independence) and the Indian constitution (which Nehru did much to frame) are standing in Nehru's way. Congress Party moderates prefer more neutrality than Nehru now seems to envisage; some Cabinet ministers even threaten to resign if Nehru elevates the unpopular Menon to the Foreign Ministry. The constitution has a "fundamental rights" clause, which guarantees private property from seizure without good compensation...
...before 1 a.m. on the second day of debate, the Premier, his voice thick with disgust, announced: "I must pose the question of confidence." That meant that the vote would be delayed until this week and if the Mendès government is beaten, the Cabinet would have to resign...
...that there was an attempt to stifle justice," cried Terracini. "It is impossible to believe that the honorable Premier, at that time Minister of the Interior, was kept completely in the dark about what his immediate subalterns were doing." The Communists and Red Socialists demanded that the Scelba government resign...
...students must, for one thing, resign themselves to at least two years of an R.O.T.C. course, since this is compulsory at all state universities, and they must thereby accept a campus atmosphere tinged for all with regimentation and militarism. ("It is disconcerting," said one professor, "to be talking about Plato and hear 'tramp, tramp, tramp' outside the window...
With one member advocating lesser punishment, the committee then recommended that Glasser be allowed to resign without prejudice. The group added that if the refused to do so, no alternative remained but to dismiss him from the University. On Sept. 11, the University accepted Glasser's resignation...