Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...months, a chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The man must have "skilled banking judgment" and be "qualified for the assumption of responsibilities public in their character." Last week they persuaded Gates W. McGarrah to take the job by May 7. Before then he must resign as chairman of the executive committee of the Chase National Bank, as U. S. member of the General Council of the German Reichsbank, and all other business affiliations. His pay for all this will be $16,000 yearly...
...Would Messieurs les Députés recall for a moment Antoine Emmanuel Ernest Monis, who 16 years ago was Premier of France? Many who sat in the Chamber last week must have known him in his prime. They must recall how it became necessary for him to resign the Premiership after a tragic accident. . . . Premier Monis had gone out with his War Minister, Henry Maurice Berteaux, to Issy-les-Moulineaux, there to watch the start of a Paris-Madrid air race. That was in 1911, only eight years after the first motor-propelled airplane flew. As the Premier...
Governor Elaine called a tax catechism issued by one of President Frank's professors: "A hodge-podge of lies, half-truths and mis- representation." Thereupon, President Frank replied that the Gov- ernor's statement implied the professor should either retract, resign, or be removed. "As long as I am president of the university," said Dr. Frank, "complete and unqualified academic freedom will not only be accorded to members of Faculties but will be vigorously de- fended, regardless of the pressure, the power or the prestige that may accompany any challenge of this inalienable right of scholarship...
...diplomat had drawn any conclusion from his social tour, it would be that the present Cabinet is a steady one. None of its members seem likely to resign at present...
...Valdemaras (Conservative) to the Premiership. Antona Smetona, for some 20 years a tireless exponent of Lithuanian nationalism, thus halted by force last week the growing rapprochement with Soviet Russia which was the policy of the ousted Socialist Cabinet. Then, to make his coup "constitutional" he forced President Grinius to resign, and finally compelled the Seimas (Parliament) to assemble and elect him (Smetona) President...