Word: resignation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...short-tempered Senate President Arturo Illas Hourritinier caned his job-seeking old uncle's head and then tried to punish the Havana press for reporting the incident, an irate band of his colleagues have been staying away from the Senate Chamber to forestall a quorum, force him to resign (TIME, May 31). Last week after considerable backtracking, President Illas did resign and the Senate went back to work. Elected as his successor, on the potent recommendation of Army Boss Fulgencio Batista, was Liberal Senator Lucilo de la Pena. Promptly Colonel Batista sent his mouthpiece President Federico Laredo...
...last month that he devoted a session to a fierce harangue against the press, ordered InformaciÓn's Senate reporter to be booted from the press gallery. At this point the Senators decided they had had enough "conduct unbecoming a Senator," began clamoring for President Illas' resignation. After they refused to appear in numbers sufficient for a quorum. President Illas growled that he would resign. But when, to save face on both sides, his friends got 20 of the 36 Senators to give him a vote of confidence last week, in the earnest hope that he would...
...Boston next fall." Seated in the back of the room was first-year Law Student Leo Francis Curley, who after class approached Professor Seavey, received an immediate apology for the slur. Announced Massachusetts' onetime Democratic Governor and Senator-reject next day: "I've advised my son to resign...
...Russia can be acquitted of deliberate, systematic persecution and falsification. I might inquire if he [Soviet Ambassador Troyanovsky] thought our hearings were a put-up job, why such pressure was brought to bear upon members of the defense committee and of the commission of inquiry to induce them to resign...
...likeliest man to stop the march to power of Adolf Hitler. Publisher Hugenberg was wiser. Even before Adolf Hitler became Chancellor, Alfred Hugenberg prudently dissolved his own party, loudly and publicly joined the Nazis. Herr Hitler was grateful, for a while, but last week Alfred Hugenberg was forced to resign from his last important job: director of UFA, Germany's largest motion picture company...