Word: resign
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...former years considerable maladministration of the public lands by the Department of the Interior has been charged. During the Taft administration Secretary of the Interior Ballinger found it convenient to resign. From then until "Teapot Dome" there was comparative pease. Now the Senate feels that a committee had best be sent out to scout for possible festering grievances, which might later embarrass the Administration. During the past fortnight the investigation (by the Senate Committee on Public Lands) got under...
...Washington, General Lincoln C. Andrews, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in charge of Prohibition enforcement, smilingly replied to reporters who asked whether Prohibition Commissioner Haynes, lately stripped of most of his powers, would resign...
...recalled, however, that Signor Orlando was elected to the present Parliament on a Fascist ticket. When he deserted the Fascisti and went over to the Opposition (TIME, Dec. 1), he declared that he was not bound to resign, as he had been elected by the Liberal voters of Sicily who themselves had backed the Fascist ticket because he, Orlando, had backed it, and not because his constituents had any predictions for Fascism. The municipal election disproved Signor Orlando's contention and opponents averred that the only thing left for him to do was to resign...
...yearly friction between the Admiralty and the Treasury. The Admiralty had proposed a policy and he, Mr. Churchill, had urged a delay of one year before putting it into effect. But the Government had (allegedly because Admiral of the Fleet Lord Beatty and First Lord Bridgeman had threatened to resign) eventually decided to proceed at once with the shipbuilding scheme, provided that the Admiralty made economies which affected the cost. ¶An important statement on the threatened coal strike was made by the Premier (see above). ¶ A bill to regulate unemployment insurance was passed after a dull debate...
After Finance Minister Hamaguchi had sat down, a Seiyukai Minister arose, said that his party, of which three members form part of the coalition Cabinet, could not support the Finance Minister's contentions. Premier Kato called upon the three Seiyukai Ministers to resign. They refused. To get rid of them, Premier Kato handed the Prince Regent the Cabinet's resignation. The Prince accepted the resignation and asked Premier Kato to form a new Cabinet, which he did merely by appointing three Kenseikai (Government) Party members to fill the places of the dropped Seiyukai members...