Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...article proposing stern punishments for income tax dodgers. Thus rebuffed Loucheur kissed the rod to the extent of asking the Committee what sort of proposal it would endorse. The Committee haughtily took the almost unprecedented course of refusing to offer any suggestions whatever, and M. Loucheur was forced to resign as Finance Minister- admittedly a beaten...
...this trying impasse the position of Premier Briand was not so desperate as might at first appear. In ordinary circumstances he would have felt called upon to resign after so spectacular a rebuke to his chief minister. But last week French public opinion obviously continued to regard Pére Briand as the one man who can still save the nation by constitutional means. (Although Le Matin, influential organ of famed editor Stephane Lauzanne, called for the dissolution of Parliament and the establishment of a dictatorship by "staunch and courageous men outside of politics...
...XIII embraced that genial Pittsburgher, Alexander Pollock Moore, U. S. Ambassador to Spain, devoted husband of the late Lillian Russell. Mr. Moore, who is said to address Alfonso as "Chief" and the Duke of Alba as "Jimmy," had just officially informed his royal friend that he was about to resign as Ambassador and return...
Representative Garner: "There may be something in the rumor that the Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Mellon, is going to resign, since the President approves the tax bill which differs in most respects from what was advocated by Mr. Mellon, and since we did not carry out Mr. Mellon's recommendations...
...situation which might restore him to all his old prestige if the panacea "worked"; and might brand the Liberal Party as a parcel of radicals if the measure failed either in Parliament or later. As always the wily George threatened and yielded adroitly. He swore that he would resign from the party and go "out into the wilderness." He cajoled his old follower, Sir Alfred Mond, a bitter foe of land nationalization. At length he yielded, just soon enough to secure notable concessions as a reward for not carrying out his threat to split the party...