Word: resignment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...performance at the polls last week only proved again that listening to inflammatory speeches and voting for candidates are two affairs. Liberal Taschereau won 79 out of 90 contested seats. Skyrocket Houde followed an old Canadian maneuver and ran for office from two separate districts (expecting to resign from one or the other after election). He was defeated in both. Quebec's election day had its Chicago aspects. In Montreal 232 people were arrested. A man was killed in an argument in Sorel. Hooligans wrecked an anti-Houde newspaper office. Voting booths were raided, ballot boxes stolen. Municipal constables...
...Because of my ill health, and in view of changed circumstances, it has been necessary for the present Government to resign." With this brief announcement Count Stephen Bethlen de Bethlen, Prime Minister of Hungary, gave up the power he has wielded for ten years and prepared to sun his spare ribs on the shores of Margaret Island, play tennis and polo and otherwise enjoy himself. Admiral Nicholas Horthy, Regent of Hungary, accepted the resignation and immediately called grey-chinned Count Julius Karolyi to form another Cabinet. The air darkened with rumors...
Meanwhile in Manila last week there were signs of a rapprochement between Governor General Dwight Filley Davis and the native Legislature. The report that Governor Davis would resign Jan. 1 to join his wife in Paris, coupled with speculation as to his successor, disturbed Filipino politicos who feared the next Governor General would be less friendly, more dictatorial. This fear prompted Sergio Osmena, president pro tem, of the Senate to declare: "Everybody knows of the continuation of Governor Davis in office at great sacrifice on his part. Because of the invalid condition of Mrs. Davis, the Governor feels the necessity...
...Catalans," he shouted from the white balcony of Barcelona's Generalidad Palace, "You are free! The moment the Catalan autonomy statute gains full force, I shall resign...
Last week in Lahore came fruit of Lord Irwin's gag law. Murtz Ahmad Khan, editor of the (Persian-language) weekly Afghanistan, recently had published an editorial under the heading: WHY DOES NOT THE PRESENT GOVERNMENT IN AFGHANISTAN RESIGN? This violated Lord Irwin's law; Murtz Ahmad Khan was arrested, put on trial...