Word: resign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...effect of this expulsion was not, as Pashitch intended, to discomfit the expelled Jovanovitch and his friend Raditch, but rather to cause a general anti-Radical reaction, which obliged the 15-day-old Radical Cabinet (TIME, April 19) of Premier Uzunovitch to resign. M. Uzunovitch reformed his Cabinet at once, but was forced to welcome into it Croat Raditch, as Minister of Education. The new Cabinet is thus a completely unstable "dog and cat coalition," like the last Pashitch Cabinet (TIME, April...
...career, except for an engineering course at Harvard, parallels Mr. Willard's closely-a New England parentage, ground-training in the Midwest, the presidency of the Northern Pacific at 42 (1903). In 1913 he accepted the task of rehabilitating the New York, New Haven & Hartford, but had to resign after four years. Recovering, he worked under Mr. Willard in the U. S. Railroad Administration. He is still a director of 19 roads. The breadth and activity of his other interests are witnessed by his membership in a baker's dozen of educational, sociological and political bodies besides...
Malvy. Minister of Interior Louis Malvy departed for Nice during the week, there to recuperate from the shock to his nerves caused when he was ruthlessly attacked in the Chamber (TIME, March 29) and fainted dead away. It was later rumored that he would resign. Thus M. Briand was placed in a slightly better position for conciliating the potent enemies of Malvy on the Right, who want him out of the Cabinet at all costs. His equally important friends on the Left found themselves in a position to let him slip out under the age-old cloak of diplomats, "illness...
...year-old "Father of the U-Boats" is ordinarily content to recline at ease on one of the extreme Fascist benches in the Reichstag. There he is sometimes observed to nod. More often he strokes and fondles his forked beard, remembering, no doubt, how he was forced to resign as Grand Admiral by the Kaiser (1916) and obliged to take refuge in Switzerland after the War because of German popular resentment* against him as the instigator of Germany's eventually disastrous U-boat policy. Such memories, perhaps, have taught him to keep silent. But last week he rose...
Above the roar came M. Briand's answer: "No! I am not such a coward as to accept this sacrifice. Never! If you resign, I resign...