Word: resign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Locarno followed the Dawes Plan; and security in Europe has measurably followed Locarno. It was only when Premier Macdonald pushed his earnest desire for world concord to the length of furthering a rapprochement with Soviet Russia that he lost contact with British public opinion and was obliged to resign the premiership. He remains the strongest single figure in the British Labor party, and may well become premier again. In the U. S. he will spend merely a short Easter vacation, will call upon President Coolidge, will speak only once, before the Foreign Policy Association in Manhattan...
Rumors that Platt is seriously ill and may be forced to resign his captaincy are entirely unfounded. Shortly after his return to college he will begin getting into shape for the crew season which is already under way, although it is probable that he will work on the tank and the machines at first...
...powers of which have fluctuated, without ever being very clearly defined, between the purely advisory and the actually administrative. The fluctuation has followed naturally from the changing strength of character in successive classes. Thus, in 1924 the council was so unrepresentative and therefore weak that it was obliged to resign. Last week, a council, full of conviction and therefor strong, resigned by its own choice to force the whole issue of Princeton self-government...
Confronted with such news, Clinton W. Gilbert, Washington correspondent with a couple of books to his credit, revived the rumor that Secretary of State Kellogg is soon to resign. Meanwhile, The Nation, provocative weekly, devoted a page to prove that "Kellogg Must...
...showing that the bill is unsound, unworkable and highly costly. Secretary of Agriculture Jardine, who would have to direct the farm experiment if the President makes it law, abhors it. Applying the British principle of Cabinet government, it would be necessary for President Coolidge's entire Cabinet to resign if he signs the bill. Certainly, Secretaries Mellon and Jardine would have good reason to resign. But, does the President have any intention of signing this bill? The President, next day, received the official bill duly signed by President of the Senate Dawes and Speaker of the House Longworth; despatched...