Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more famed companies than any other financier, took an immensely important command in the Republican political army. He agreed to collect the money from New York State, from which most of the money must come. Mr. Hayden did not apologize; he was proud to serve. Mr. Hayden did not resign anything; no one even remotely hinted that he should. He had just as much right as any truck driver to work for the Republican party...
Chicago's police chief, Michael ("Go Get 'Em Mike") Hughes, last week went to a hospital and had his tonsils removed. Then, recumbent, he resigned his post. Stated reason: health. The Hughes tonsils, however, had little to do with the Hughes resignation. The Hughes resignation had long been sought by citizens, including the loud Tribune, who had grown weary of Chicago's bawdy disorderliness under Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill the Builder") Thompson. The Hughes resignation seemed to indicate that an end to the whole Thompson phenomenon was in sight. Thompson and his men were beaten...
...Serbs living under a Serbian heaven, ruled by a Serbian god who is attended by Serbian angels." The new Slovene Prime Minister is a Roman Catholic priest, Father Anton Korosec who was Minister of Interior in the recently fallen cabinet of Serb Velia Vukichevich. The cabinet was obliged to resign by the titanic scandal which ensued when a deputy of the government party shot two Croatian deputies dead on the floor of the Skupshtina (parliament) and wounded three other Croats, including famed Stefan Raditch, leader of the Croatian party (TIME, July...
...Chicago lawyer, served faithfully as a G. 0. Politician in Illinois (five times State Chairman, three times National Delegate, twice National Committeeman, and for the Coolidge campaign National Secretary). This year he was to have been vice chairman of the National Finance Committee, but he said he would resign that job at once and "familiarize myself with the great office for which I have been chosen...
Last week, Count Volpi resigned as Finance Minister. He is known to have incurred the ire of Il Duce on several occasions-notably when he insisted that the lira be put back on gold at a lower valuation than that at first desired by Signor Mussolini. But from this it must not be rashly assumed that Count Volpi was "asked to resign." The irritable Duce has in other moods given his Finance Minister to understand that he must resist certain highly lucrative offers from the sphere of private business which have become especially tempting of late...