Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...said, if I were President, and I should find the Treasury menaced by an unjust obligation of $4,000,000,000, such as the soldiers' bonus, and I could not summon enough votes from my party to sustain my veto, I would resign...
General Leonard Wood, according to reports from Manila, has made up his mind to resign as Governor General of the Philippines. His superior, Secretary Weeks, said nothing on the subject. General Wood declared that he expected to resign because his work was done. Perhaps he was tired of the climate. Said...
...gentleman in the Treasury, cried Mr. Frear, keep his hands off or resign...
...said that he ought to resign from his position as Secretary of the Treasury unless he was in sympathy with the Bonus Bill and the Tax Bill as we had passed them. That, I insist, is a fair statement. He ought not to administer a law unless he can 'do it fairly. That is what I said, and I repeat...
...seriously, was defeated 176 to 164 votes. ¶The subject of a reduction of Minister for Labor Tom Shaw's salary by ?100 (Conservative protest against Labor's inactive unemployment policy) was again brought up (TIME, June 2). The Premier made it evident that the Government would resign if it were defeated. Referring to the Opposition he said: "If they think they are going to benefit Europe and their own country, as well as have a risky chance of benefiting their own fortunes, let them defeat us tonight. I shall do my best to meet them...