Word: resignations
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Illinois do in this emergency? Clearly they cannot afford - the National Republican Party cannot afford - to permit Colonel Smith's perverted ambition to lose a seat in the Sen ate to the party and to the National Administration. "If Colonel Smith doesn't accept the inevitable and resign, the Republican voters should place in the field as a protest candidate a strong, clean Republican on an Administration anticorruption platform. Personally, I should be happy to support such a candidate." In New London, Conn., Col. Frank L. Smith, recuperating from an illness, read his papers, said curtly...
Later he was hurried ashore by a U. S. Coast Guard cutter. Reporters boxed him, asked him if he really intended to resign as chief of prohibition enforcement. Said he: "You asked me that last November, and I told you that if I had shown no progress in a year I would quit. Well, I am sticking to that...
...openly wagered their public offices on the outcome of the election, she to resign as Governess if she failed to beat him by a single vote-he to relinquish his Attorney-Generalship if she beat...
...Mellett's prominent targets. There was even talk of changing Canton's form of city government. Canton's leading citizen, Manufacturer H. H. ("Roller Bearings") Timken, fumed over the unemotional attitude of the Citizens' Cleanup Committee, vowing he would "get some damned action" or resign...
...lawyer of Clarence Darrow calibre, for 40 years a Deputy, the outstanding World War French War Minister, subsequently Commissioner-General for Alsace-Lorraine, a lifelong champion of decentralized government, pugnacious, obstinate, cursed by a lack of political foresight, prominent in the die-hard political Right, forced to resign the Presidency when Herriot succeeded in forming the Coalition of Left Parties...