Word: resign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...residence at Washington and this Under-Secretaryship was the first opportunity which presented itself; perhaps he is grooming himself to be a future Secretary of the Treasury. But Mr. Mellon, in announcing Mr. Mills's appointment, attempted to forestall rumor by a firm denial of any intent to resign...
...Jews of Bessarabia (20% of the urban population) read last week with passive indignation of how Senator Rabbi Zirelson, their sole representative in the Rumanian Senate, had felt called upon to resign from the Senate after passionately attacking the anti-Semite policy of the Government. The Senators, urbane, accepted Rabbi Zirelson's resignation and voted 80 to 17 not to print his speech in the Official Gazette...
Meanwhile the Chief of Police of Tokyo, bowed by the scandal that a member of the Goddess-descended Imperial House had thus suffered indignity, offered his resignation. Prince Regent Hirohito, clement, refused to allow the Chief of Police to resign, directed moreover that the priest Hirayama be not prosecuted...
...President Cleveland last week reached San Francisco from Kobe, Japan, bringing six young men and their explanations why they were obliged to resign from the Floating University aboard the S. S. Ryndam, bound around the world (TIME, Sept. 27). They had, they admitted, rushed the guards at the Imperial Hotel, Tokyo, in their eagerness to see the unoccupied royal suite, held sacred to the Mikado and his family or visiting royalty. They had burst the imperial doors off their imperial hinges, sat on imperial chairs, lounged on imperial lounges. They had stormed a Buddhist temple, torn down an image, encountered...
...which seems to be the happy-hunting ground for Mr. Clive's play-pickers, the current Copley play had great popularity. It should have the same reception in this stronghold of Anglo-philes. Someone told Mr. Clive that there was nothing like farce for his stage, and Boston can resign itself to the fare for many a month, until the London farce market is exhausted. Fortunately, his informant was a very shrewd fellow. There is nothing like farce for the Copley...