Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reporters, calling at the White House for the usual press conference, put the question to the President whether there was any significance in the sudden departure of Attorney General Sargent for Vermont-was he about to resign? The Presidential eye twinkled. The President took pleasure in assuring the reporters that Mr. Sargent had again become a grandfather...
...been fought with the tariff as a distinctly major issue. Thus it appeared that Mackenzie King, by allying himself with the Progressives, might well continue as Premier with a "minority Government," as did Britain's only Labor Premier, Macdonald. Thus it was that Premier King, although "defeated," refused to resign. He announced that he would "discuss the situation with the Governor-General, Lord Byng, and then make a statement" of his intentions...
...Nationalist members of the Cabinet (three of them) interpreted this resolution as a party command to resign and forthwith presented their resignations to Chancellor Luther. It was felt that this development would inevitably lead to serious delays in ratifying the treaties. The Monarchist press was headlining: "The Pact is dead...
...Nice that he had more schemes up his sleeve for converting or consolidating France's internal debts and juggling with her allied obligations. He declared that he could not "divulge" his plans, vowed that Germany had tried a capital levy three times unsuccessfully, swore that he would resign rather than introduce it, and apparently expected the conference to express confidence in his famed "Wizardry," now wearing rather thin. The upshot of the matter was that M. Herriot, after imploring M. Caillaux tearfully to throw up his lot with the capital levy, negotiated a compromise with the bald necromancer...
...personal ambitions without the nerve or daring to fight for them; that he was neither well-educated nor well-read; that he was so impudent as to invent phrases of his own when he could just as well have quoted from the classics; and that he was forced to resign from the presidency of Princeton...