Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...automotive man of equal standing and one of the fathers of the Liberty motor. Clement M. Keys, President of the famed Curtiss Airplane Co., is to be Chairman of the Executive Committee. Lieutenant Colonel Paul Henderson (TIME, Nov. 3), in charge of the U. S. Air Mail, is to resign after July 1 and become General Operations Manager. The directorate includes such men as Marshall Field III of Chicago, Stuyvesant Fish of Manhattan, William A. Rockefeller (grandson of the late brother of John Davison Rockefeller), P. K. Wrigley (son of the chewing-gum man). The great strength of the project...
...began: "In order to demonstrate to you how fragile the basis of our National security is, I am going to show you that if one man (myself) had not committed certain unlawful acts, by committing which he exposed himself to court martial and dismissal and was actually forced to resign his position, we would surely have lost the war with Germany. I realize that I am laying myself open to the charge of being conceited and egotistical." The Commerce men peered eagerly through the after-dinner smoke. The game old Admiral was evidently about to utter things even more provocative...
...year later, she married a brilliant diplomat?John Wallace Riddle, but bad luck on the ocean continued to harass her and, a few months ago (TIME, Mar. 23), Mr. Riddle was forced to resign his post as Ambassador to Argentina because her health forbade her venturing again upon the ocean...
...Raymer '78. Associate-Professor of Mining in the University since 1919, and an instructor in the University since 1899 will resign at the end of the academic year to become professor, emeritus, according to an announcement made yesterday. Professor Raymer graduated from the University in 1878, and received his degree of Master of Engineering from Columbia...
...tariff. He joined recently with the Democratic Commissioners in officially advising the President to reduce the import duty on sugar-advice which has so far been ignored. But Mr. Culbertson has none of the insurgent's zest for battle. To cause embarrassment, embarrasses him. He was willing to resign with honor. The President surveyed the field of honors. There was Peking-but that, he was determined, should go to John Van Antwerp MacMurray, specialist on Oriental diplomacy (TIME, Apr. 13). And there was the lesser honor of Bucharest, scrappy Paris of the Balkans. The post needed a man skilled...