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Helen Thomas resignation
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Thomas Francis Meagher
Thomas Francis Meagher , 1823-67, Irish revolutionary and Union general in the American Civil War, b. Waterford, Ireland. A leader of the Young Ireland movement, he was arrested and condemned to death for his part in the abortive rebellion of 1848, but the sentence was commuted to penal servitude in... Read more |
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Arthur Meighen
Arthur Meighen , 1874-1960, Canadian political leader, b. Ontario. A lawyer, he began his career in Manitoba. Entering (1908) the Canadian House of Commons as a Liberal-Conservative, he became solicitor general (1913), secretary of state and minister of mines (1917), and minister of the interior... Read more |
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Zenko Suzuki
Zenko Suzuki 1911-2004, Japanese politican. A founder of the ruling Liberal Democratic party (1955), he became prime minister on the death of Masayoshi Ohira (1980). Criticism from within the party and a failure to reinvigorate the economy resulted in his resignation (1982). He was succeeded by... Read more |
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Renunciation
351. Renunciation abdication the formal act by a regent of resigning from his position. abjuration the act of renouncing upon oath, such as an alien applying for citizenship renouncing allegiance to a former country of nationality. expatriation the process of abandoning one |
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John Murray Atholl
Atholl, John Murray, 1st duke of [S] (1660–1724). Murray was a strong supporter of the Glorious Revolution, was created earl of Tullibardine in 1696, and succeeded his father as marquis of Atholl in May 1703. A month later he was raised to the dukedom and was given the Thistle in 1704. From... Read more |
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John Clifford Pemberton
John Clifford Pemberton 1814-81, Confederate general in the American Civil War, b. Philadelphia. He served in the Seminole and Mexican wars and at various frontier posts. He resigned from the U.S. army in Apr., 1861, and in June became a Confederate brigadier general. Pemberton was made a... Read more |
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Norman Douglas
Norman Douglas (George Norman Douglas), 1868-1952, British novelist and essayist, b. Scotland. He spent the years from 1894 to 1896 in diplomatic service in Russia but resigned from the foreign service in 1896. His masterpiece, South Wind (1917), which is set on Nepenthe, an invented... Read more |
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Andrei Kozyrev
Andrei Vladimirovich Kozyrev Andrei Vladimirovich Kozyrev (born 1951) became the Russian minister of foreign affairs a year before Russia became independent. He later became one of the more liberal, pro-Western figures in Boris Yeltsin's cabinet. He was forced to resign in January 1996 as... Read more |
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Sully
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