Word: resigned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Laniel, whose government must resign in January when France inaugurates a new President, was trying to get some sort of moral support (not ratification) for EDC out of the Assembly, to give his lameduck government a little more standing at Bermuda. The Premier watered his resolution down as far as he could without draining it of all meaning: "The National Assembly . . . asks for assurances that the policy of building a united Europe will be continued . . ." Then Laniel put the squeeze on the Deputies by submitting the resolution to a vote of confidence. This meant that, if the measure was voted...
...great executive." But when the President chose Harry Hopkins' method of spending relief money ("shoveling" most of it out for leaf raking and other make-work jobs instead of following Ickes' advice and spending it all on permanent public works), he felt bound to resign. After Roosevelt talked him out of it he wrote in exasperation: "He sidetracked me. It is almost impossible to come to grips with...
Laniel and Bidault are representatives of a government that may only govern France until the middle of January. At that time, when their country elects a new president, they must automatically resign their posts for a now national election
This latest disclosure will heap fuel on Republican charges of Democratic "softness" toward Commiusim. Conden, who stoutly defended his loyalty before the Atomic Energy Commission last year, will undoubtedly be put under heavy pressure to resign from Congress...
...wishes to broadcast such incendiary doctrines to the world he should resign as a professor," Donlan said...