Word: resignation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Invited to resign, Teacher Hallin asked what the charges against her were. Tight-lipped Miss Smith would not say. Cried Miss Hallin: "I know it is those silly rumors about the drinking. And they're not true. Those children are only 17. There never was any liquor served." Teacher Hallin asked for a public hearing, which the Board refused. Pouted she: "Everything is going wrong at once. My parents are sick, and now my job has been unjustly taken away from, me. I'm blue...
...Echoed Mrs. Grace Whittredge: "Gossip! The reputation of our family in town is beyond reproach." Asked repeatedly to tell what her charges were, old Miss Smith let it be known that she had not investigated and would not press them in detail, but still wanted Miss Hallin to resign for "professional reasons." Students began to picket Miss Smith's house with such placards as WE WANT FAIR PLAY! GIVE THE HOME GIRL A CHANCE...
...Senate meanwhile hammered the squint-eyed Frenchman who as Finance Minister under Premier Blum officially was responsible for bogging down the State's finances in such a morass that the Blum Cabinet chose with relief to resign, namely Vincent Auriol. Today he is Minister of Justice in the new Chautemps Cabinet. Last week the Senate Finance Committee's rapporteur, Abel Gardey, flayed him in a long speech which the Senate liked so well it ordered his words posted up on public billboards all over France. Senator Gardey charged that Vincent Auriol when he was Finance Minister had been...
Minister of Justice Auriol, when he found such jibes were to be posted all over France, went purple with fury on the Government bench, threatened to resign and made such a scene that finally Senator Gardey himself persuaded the Senate to cancel its order for posting up his speech...
Could the Senator from Pennsylvania ask the witness a question? It was "common talk" in Pittsburgh clubs, said the Senator, that Mr. Girdler had been asked to resign from the presidency of Jones & Laughlin Steel. "Because you gave confidential information of your company to the company you are now with...