Word: resign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Meiklejohn was forced to resign from the presidency for Amherst College because of opposition to his liberal curriculum reforms. His popularity among the students was attested by the fact that 13 seniors refused their diplomas as a protest agaist his resignation...
When the Locarno Pacts actually came up before the Reichstag, the Socialists momentarily ceased to abstain and helped Chancellor Luther to railroad the Pacts through. Their "price" for this aid was announced to have been Chancellor Luther's scrupulously fulfilled promise to resign, so that someone else might form a "Big Coalition" in which the Socialists would take part. Since no German statesman has been able to do this during the past six weeks, Dr. Luther is apparently to carry on and make the best of everybody...
...that time the maxim, "Speech was given man to conceal his thoughts," had been well illustrated. Premier Bethlen obviously found it impossible to risk pinning the blame for the plot upon anybody-presumably because the guilty are all so extremely close to the Government. Amid repeated cries of "Resign! You are shielding forgers!" Count Bethlen proceeded merely to touch vaguely upon all the theories so far advanced to account for the crime, and wound up by stating that its "purely criminal aspects" must be left strictly in the hands of the courts, but that he would welcome a Parliamentary investigation...
After nearly a half century as professor of Sanskrit at the University, Professor C. R. Lanman, editor of the Harvard Oriental Series, will resign and become Professor Emeritus, it was announced yesterday by the University office. Dr. Lanman came to the University in 1880 and in 1903 was appointed as the first occupant of the then newly established Wales Professorship of Sanskrit...
...Paul Painleve has twice been forced to resign as Premier of France since October (TIME, Nov. 9, 30). At present he is War Minister in the Cabinet of M. Briand, and spends his days amid the desperate vexations of trying to conduct the two most unpopular wars ever waged by France (those in Syria and in Morocco). Amid all these distractions he has kept up his hobby, "higher mathematics," and found time to spend hours in the laboratory of his son Jean, a quiet investigator in the field of comparative histology. Last week, by a trick of Fate...