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The resignation of Harold Wilson brought James Callaghan to power, however his small majority was eroded with several by-election losses and the government became increasingly unpopular during the Winter of Discontent, although an arrangement was negotiated in 1977 with the Liberals known as the Lib-Lab pact and a succession of deals with the Scottish National Party and Plaid Cymru to hold referendums on devolution in exchange for their support, had helped to prolong the government's life.
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Led by Harold Nelson, some 1000 demonstrators marched to Government House at Liberty Square in Darwin where they burnt an effigy of the Administrator of the Northern Territory John Gilruth and demanded his resignation.
The election resulted in a hung parliament with the Tories having the most votes but Labour having slightly more seats, and failed attempts by Heath to form a coalition with the Liberals led to the resignation of his government and the return of Harold Wilson as prime minister of a minority Labour government, which gained a three-seat majority at a second election later in the year.
In October 1964, Conservative Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home ( who had only been in power for 12 months since the resignation of Harold Macmillan ) called a general election.
He was Leader of the House of Lords when Harold Macmillan, the Prime Minister, announced his sudden resignation for health reasons at the start of the 1963 Conservative Party conference.
Set in 1963 during the Profumo scandal, Hugh Whitemore's play A Letter of Resignation, first staged at the Comedy Theatre in October 1997, dramatises the occasion when Harold Macmillan, staying with friends in Scotland, received a political bombshell, a letter of resignation from Profumo, his war minister.
His affair with Christine Keeler, the reputed mistress of an alleged Soviet spy, followed by lying in the House of Commons when he was questioned about it, forced the resignation of Profumo and damaged the reputation of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's government.
The controversy led to a poor performance when he fought for the Labour leadership on Harold Wilson's resignation.
The scandal, now known as the Profumo Affair, led to Profumo's resignation and withdrawal from politics, and it may have helped to topple the Conservative government of Harold Macmillan.
The split came just before the resignation of Harold Wilson as prime minister and party leader and the election of James Callaghan as his successor.
The existence of this provision soon proved to be of importance at the highest levels of British politics, following the resignation of Harold Macmillan as Prime Minister in October 1963.
Goldsmith was knighted in the 1976 resignation honours – the so-called " Lavender List " – of Prime Minister Harold Wilson.
After the unexpected resignation of Harold Macmillan, the 14th Earl was named Prime Minister by the monarch.
After serving in various capacities to the state government, Huffman was appointed to the Senate to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Harold H. Burton.
* 1956: Charles L. Bartlett, Chattanooga Times, for his original disclosures that led to the resignation of Harold E. Talbott as Secretary of the Air Force.
As the car speeds away Harold is silent, but in his face we see a full range of emotions ; at first astonishment which gives way to anger and then a slow realization that he is powerless and finally resignation to the fact that he is moments from death.
After the report was published in August 1967 he wrote to the then Minister of Power offering his resignation, but the Minister and PM Harold Wilson rejected it, although several cabinet members argued strongly that Robens should have been removed.
He was appointed Solicitor-General by Harold Macmillan in June 1962, following the Night of the Long Knives, receiving the customary knighthood, and served through the prosecution of the spy John Vassall ( and subsequent resignation of a junior minister, Tam Galbraith ) and the Profumo affair, in which his offer to resign was declined.
Cousins served as Minister of Technology in Harold Wilson's Labour government from October 1964 until his resignation in July 1966.
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By coincidence, it was Bevan's further resignation from the Shadow Cabinet in 1954 that put Wilson back on the front bench ( as a spokesman, initially, on finance ).
The matter was still unresolved at the time of Wilson ’ s resignation in 1976.
On 16 March 1976, Wilson surprised the nation by announcing his resignation as Prime Minister ( taking effect on 5 April 1976 ).
Callaghan immediately offered his resignation as Chancellor and increasing political opposition forced Wilson to accept it.
Barely two years after beginning his second spell as prime minister, Wilson announced his surprise resignation on 16 March 1976, and unofficially endorsed Callaghan as his successor.
By his exposure of the Wilson scandal, and by his personal plain speaking, Clemenceau contributed largely to Jules Grévy's resignation of the presidency in 1887.
The government had drawn up a carefully-worded formula to prevent the resignation of officers, but in response to Henry Wilson ’ s questioning Seely ( Secretary of State for War ) added two paragraphs (“ the peccant paragraphs ”) stating that the Army would not be required to coerce Ulster.
Valerie Elise Plame Wilson ( born April 19, 1963 ), known as Valerie Plame, Valerie E. Wilson, and Valerie Plame Wilson, is a former United States CIA Operations Officer and the author of a memoir detailing her career and the events leading up to her resignation from the CIA.
Re-elected eleven times, Wilson thoroughly enjoyed his job and always sought to " take care of the home folks " until his resignation on October 8, 1996.
During the First World War, Wilson served on the Commission for Relief in Belgium and, in 1915, accepted the chairmanship of the Indiana State Chapter of the League to Enforce Peace, a position he held until his resignation over US involvement in the League of Nations after the close of the war.
After another term in the House, from 1801 to 1803, Giles was appointed as a Senator from Virginia after the resignation of Wilson Cary Nicholas in 1804.
However, following the decisions of Shadow Minister Victor Perton and Deputy Leader Phil Honeywood to resign, and the further resignation of Doyle's Chief of Staff Ron Wilson and his Director of Communications Rob Clancy, debate as to Doyle's future was re-ignited.
Barack Obama, Afghan presidential election, 2009, 2009 – 2010 Iranian election protests, the Henry Louis Gates arrest controversy, the resignation of Sarah Palin, swine flu, the " Miracle on the Hudson " water landing of US Airways Flight 1549, the Octomom, the divorce of Jon and Kate Gosselin, Brett Favre, Joe Wilson yelling " You Lie!
Clarke was in the middle of his primary campaign when he was appointed by President Woodrow Wilson on July 15, 1914 to fill a vacancy on the U. S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio created by the resignation of William Louis Day.
She continued to work for Wilson, handling his private business from the time of his resignation in 1976 until his death in 1995.
Five people have acted as mayor: Wilson Primm following the resignation of John Darby ; Ferdinand W. Cronenbold following the resignation of Chauncey Filley ; Herman Rechtien following the death of Arthur Barret ; George W. Allen following the resignation of David Francis ; Aloys P. Kaufmann following the death of William Becker.
# Quandt, p. 94, gives 1972 as the date of his resignation ; Graham and Wilson, ibid., say 1973 ; Dekmejian, p. 141, says " around 1974 "
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This coalition has held, although occasionally the group adopts a government-opposition dynamic with the other groups, notably during the budget crisis when it opposed the Socialists and brought about the resignation of the Santer Commission.
The resignation and exile of Charles Taylor in 2003 brought changes in diplomatic ties between the United States and Liberia.
When Schleicher brought down Groener in May 1932, Groener made a point in his resignation speech of praising Raeder for his " correct " behaviour as opposed to Army officers like former protégé Schleicher who had undermined his leadership and plotted against him.
Following his resignation as Secretary of Defense, legal proceedings against Weinberger were brought by Independent Counsel Lawrence E. Walsh.
Godement's wife wanted to see Dieudonné announcing his resignation, and so on one occasion while she was there Schwartz deliberately brought up again the question of permuting the order in which measure theory and topological vector spaces were to be handled, to precipitate a guaranteed crisis.
This attack on a time-hallowed piece of college discipline brought a demand for his resignation as assistant tutor.
When the downfall of the Dufaure cabinet brought about MacMahon's resignation, Gambetta declined to become a candidate for the presidency, but supported Jules Grévy ; nor did he attempt to form a ministry, but accepted the office of president of the chamber of deputies in January 1879.
The Shah refused, and Mosaddegh announced his resignation appealing directly to the public for support, pronouncing that " in the present situation, the struggle started by the Iranian people cannot be brought to a victorious conclusion ".
Its revelations have sometimes brought about the resignation of cabinet ministers.
On 16 May 2006, François Bayrou and is 10 other UDF deputies voted for the motion of censure brought by the Socialist deputies calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin's government, following the Clearstream affair.
Queen Elizabeth wrote to her agents in Scotland expressing her astonishment and displeasure, because, as she was convinced her influence had brought Morton to the regency, so his forced resignation reflected badly on her.
FSS president Terzić ( who would soon afterwards be indicted on embezzlement charges ) commented Mirković's resignation as follows: " Mirković is my mistake since I didn't know him well enough as a man before I brought him into the FSS.
In the by-election for the North Central National Seat ( based in Ba district ), brought about by the resignation of Vijay R. Singh, the Alliance won by a narrow margin over the FLP candidate, Mahendra Chaudhry.
The next morning, before the opening of the session, Mrs. Beals brought us his resignation, in which he charged that the Commission was not conducting a serious inquiry.
In spite of their divergence of views, he consented, at the urgent request of President MacMahon, to take office in March 1875 in the Buffet Cabinet ; but the reactionary policy of the premier led to a dispute between him and Say both in the press and in the constituencies, and brought about Buffet's resignation.
After the early successes, though, the team slid into some hard times, which would continue for a couple of decades, until new ownership brought in first promotional wizard Larry MacPhail ( in 1938 ), then, after MacPhail's wartime resignation, player development genius Branch Rickey ( in 1943 ).
Each stage of the theatre round, a number of contestants are eliminated and sent home by the judges, though in some countries there have been very few contestants brought back during the Wildcards show or by the disqualification or resignation of another contestant.
Appointed secretary to Garibaldi, Crispi secured the resignation of Agostino Depretis, whom Garibaldi had appointed pro-dictator, and would have continued his fierce opposition to Cavour at Naples, where he had been placed by Garibaldi in the foreign office, had not the advent of the Italian regular troops and the annexation of the Two Sicilies to Italy brought about Garibaldi ’ s withdrawal to Caprera and Crispi ’ s own resignation.
Nevertheless, the humiliating defeat of the Italian army at Adwa in March 1896 in Ethiopia during First Italo-Ethiopian War, brought about his resignation after riots broke out in several Italian towns.
Although some attributed Lincoln City's sudden demise to the psychological effects of the fire on its players ( together with the resignation of successful manager Colin Murphy shortly before the fire ), it symbolised the wider crisis that the introduction of new safety legislation brought to Lincoln's Sincil Bank home.
The Averescu executive, maneuvered by Brătianu and meeting with stiff opposition from the Romanian National, Peasants ' and Democratic Nationalist parties, was ultimately brought down by Take Ionescu himself, through his resignation from office on December 11, 1921.
The protests have brought together diverse political persuasions in response to recent government corruption scandals and worries regarding upcoming EU accession, and are calling for the resignation of the Croatian Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor and early elections.
His opponents attacked his participation in the treaty negotiations as unconstitutional and brought impeachment proceedings against him ; the impeachment measure was narrowly defeated by a vote of 15 – 13 following a month-long investigation and the resignation of the lieutenant governor.
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