Word: resignation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When James John Davis wanted to resign last year, President Hoover already had a successor in mind-his good friend William Nuckles Doak, the scowling, big-featured editor of The Railway Trainman, for years Washington lobbyist of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen. Mr. Doak worked with Mr. Hoover in Food Administration days. He came up from shunting boxcars in the hardboiled coal town of Bluefield, W. Va. Therefore he could command respect from workingmen. As a Brotherhood official he had functioned in the legislative field (helping, among other things, to draft the Watson-Parker Railroad Labor...
...English historians can recollect that cheeky remarks have been made in the House of Commons immemorially by the Irish Wintertons, the First Lord Winterton having been ennobled by Charles II after being forced to resign from the House of Commons for his "confounded, quarrel some impudence...
...eccentric old Dictator "could not conscientiously resign" until he had caused a new Parliament favorable to himself to be elected (TIME, Nov. 24) by the soldierly expedient of locking up Opposition candidates without bothering to trump up charges against them...
...Rumors and fear began spreading throughout the State. American National Bank announced it was going to merge with Fourth & First National Bank of Nashville. James Erwin Caldwell, bewhiskered 76-year-old father of Rogers Caldwell. announced that he would resign as president of Fourth & First National Bank, retire. The combined banks will have total assets of $86.000.000, be second in the South only to First National Bank of Atlanta. The deal brings the control of 17 branches. 18 affiliated institutions to American National's fold, was viewed as the most constructive move during the troubled week...
...reported that an editor of the University of California newspaper has been forced to resign by the student governing body because of his editorials accusing Southern California of using professionals on its football team. Cambridge is too far away from such controversies to know whether there is any justification for the statements of the California editor, but the question as to the desirability of a body to control the policies of all student organizations is one which occurs at every college...