Word: resignation
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Blake '58 reports that of 304 University men in the Confederate ranks, 70, or 23.2 percent were killed. The high percent of mortality in the last case was due to the fact that Confederate soldiers had to serve for the duration of the war, whereas the Union men could resign when the term of their enlistment expired...
...into the Naval Unit automatically becomes a seaman in the United States Navy and will be housed, fed and instructed at the expense of the Government. The term of enlistment is four years, but if peace is declared before the expiration of that time, men will be allowed to resign if they have had three months' active service. While a member of the Naval Unit a man will receive the pay of an enlisted man in the Navy...
General Robertson, however, did not agree with the plan, and felt himself forced to resign...
...graduate of the College of Charles City, Ia., and has received the A.M. degree from the State University of Iowa. He will act as the dean of the Business School as long as Dean Gay continues his work in Washington, but at the end of that time will resign his position in favor of Dean Gay. It is expected that the latter will continue to serve on the council throughout the duration of the war, and possibly in reconstruction work after the conclusion...
Once again the French Cabinet has been forced to resign by an adverse vote of the Chamber of Deputies. At the very moment when complete unity of the Allies is more than ever necessary, the plan for an Inter-Allied War Council is jeopardised by the action of the French legislation. The much vaunted "sacred union" of political parties has been unable to withstand the strain of three years of hostilities, for the conflict of political groups is raging as bitterly as before the war, and personal prejudice against ministers, regardless of their qualifications, has more than once determined their...