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Word: resig (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shouldered his way out of the Chamber, followed by his Cabinet and by so many Deputies that adjournment was expected and some Deputies went home. Instead debate was resumed in the gray dawn and at 6:03 a. m. (while M. Herriot & Cabinet were at the Elysee presenting their resig nations to President Albert Lebrun) the leaderless Chamber voted again, this time on a motion jointly submitted by its Finance and Foreign Affairs Committee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Guillotined at Dawn | 12/26/1932 | See Source »

...Navy Department considered plans for building up the U. S. fleet to the terms of the London Naval Treaty, the Bureau of Navigation pleaded for officers to staff the ships already in existence. There were 718 Congressional appointments to the Naval Academy going begging last week. Moreover, officer resig- nations in 1929 totaled 309, of which 219 were junior officers; 77 have resigned thus far this year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Appointment & Disappointment | 8/25/1930 | See Source »

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