Word: resigation
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...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...
Turning against Rome a face that looks like a vise with two deep sockets for eyes, Louis Cardinal Billot, 81-year-old Frenchman, a foremost theologian, renounced his red hat and repaired last week to France to enter a monastery as plain Father Billot. The alleged cause of his resig nation was the Pope's placing Leon Daudet's newspaper L'Action Francaise on the Index Expurgatorius (thus banning it at once from all Roman Catholic homes). His Holiness' policy was based on the conviction that the wily, obstreperous editors of L'Action were using...