Word: resignment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate, blaming on M. Herriot's policies the so-called "collapse of the franc," voted his Cabinet out of office. The Chamber at once elected him its Speaker. In the following year he resigned as Speaker to form his disastrous two-day Cabinet and a shift to the Right Centre in the elections of 1928 was said to have "killed Herriot" politically. He was even forced to resign as Leader of his party, lie low. He regained the leadership only last year and has since been forging steadily back to power...
...assumed that this order was what Japan and Old Etonian Sir Miles Wedderburn Lampson had put over-that it was Japan's secret price for agreeing to evacuate. Raging mad, prominent Chinese sent telegrams from Peiping, Tientsin, Canton, Hankow and Shanghai demanding that the Chinese Government at Nanking resign, accusing its members of "betraying China...
Experimentally the Government let Foreign Vice Minister Quo (who signed for China) resign, waited to see if kicking Quo would appease the nation's wrath...
...sufficed to elect Prussia's Premier. Last week Prussia's shrewd old owl was variously reported as "determined to keep the Premiership at all costs" and as "so appalled by the losses of his own party, not to mention the Fascist gains, that he feels he must resign...
...make sure the officers who keep him from suicide are not sleeping?-you see him sobbing all over, like a child." When Governor Kent passes the open grave, sees the quicklime piled beside it, his conscience rises with his gorge; rather than carry out the Law he decides to resign his post. On the execution morning arrives His Majesty's Inspector of Prisons to oversee the hanging. Kent, in charge until his resignation has been accepted, refuses to proceed. Eight o'clock, the scheduled hour, ticks by. The Inspector telephones London for authority, tells the executioner to stand...