Word: resignation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before approving the committee's registration statement for deposit certificates (to be exchanged for Colombian bonds), it wanted to know what would happen if the protection of bondholders required action detrimental to Standard, such as pressing for higher taxes in Colombia. Committeemen Hayes and McCann admitted they would resign before doing anything prejudicial to the big oil company. The fact that the committee was "plastered with 26 Broadway'' seemed largely coincidence, but SEC took the case under advisement...
...Much quoted currently is Justice Field's remark when, grown senile at 80, he was asked by his colleagues to resign from the Supreme Court. Refusing, he was reminded that he had once served on a committee to secure the resignation of another doddering Justice, Robert Cooper Grier. "Yes," blazed the stubborn oldster, "and it was the dirtiest deed of my whole life...
Dictator Chiang, whose favorite means of assuring himself that he is still The Boss is abjectly to resign "all my offices," did so again last week and was expected to resign at least once more. This was good Chinese tactics since the often-postponed Kuomintang Central Executive Committee- roughly corresponding to a Chinese parliament or assembly -was at last meeting in Nanking and it behooved the Dictator to intimate politely that he is a miserable worm, thus provoking exquisitely complimentary replies...
Premier General Hayashi lost no time in revealing the mailed fist. He insisted that civilian ministers resign their party affiliations before entering his Cabinet, thus ousting completely from the conduct of Japanese affairs the Empire's two great political parties, the Minseito (majority) and Seiyukal (minority). His second high-handed act was to get the Emperor to suspend the Diet throughout last fortnight...
...have stirred any one deeply, least of all the President. The kernel of his message came when he read, "I therefore earnestly recommend . . . the appointment of additional judges in all Federal courts, without exception, where there are incumbent judges of retirement age who do not choose to retire or resign." This meant, according to the draft of the bill which he sent with his message, that he would be empowered to appoint not more than 50 new judges to duplicate those who are now 70 and have been ten years on the bench. Not stated by the President...