Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Poor old Denby had to resign...
Doctors warned Premier Edouard Herriot, still abed sick with a swollen leg, that his condition did not warrant him taking an active part in politics. Rumors ran around that the Premier would soon resign and the Ministry with him. Whether or no the Premier is going to take his doctors' advice is another matter; but it was generally believed that his health could not long stand the strain of Chamber debate...
...cinemedition of Novelist Edna Ferbeer's recent opus suggests four things: that no amount of grease paint will make Colleen Moore look very much older than, say, 30; that Ben Lyon and Phyllis Haver are both of the genus stuffed shirt and may as well resign themselves to that fate; that Wallace Beery can play a stolid soil-tiller to the last grunt; that Director Charles Brabin bent carefully over his knitting of deft acting into homely, racy atmosphere, until the final quarter of this film; then Director Brabin dropped the needles and cried: "Paste up the rest...
Both Secretary of Labor Davis and Secretary of War Weeks had spoken of retiring, but so far there have been no developments. No one at all seems likely to be asked to resign. Evidently the President believes he has a smoothly running Cabinet and is content...
Died. U. S. Supreme Court Justice Mahlon Pitney, retired, 66, in Washington, after a long illness. Two strokes of paralysis forced him to resign from the Supreme Court bench two years ago. He was appointed in 1912 by President Taft, whom he met at a dinner given by the Governor of New Jersey. At that dinner he charmed Mr. Taft with pungent anecdotes; they ate, reminisced, chortled together. Soon after, Justice Pitney was notified of his appointment. He had previously sat on the Supreme Bench of New Jersey...