Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ever since Frank A. Vanderlip, former President of the National City Bank, Manhattan, made his startling speech anent official corruption in Washington, he has been resigning his many directorships one by one. His first retirement from the board of a prominent corporation followed a letter sent to him by J. Horace Harding, requesting his resignation from the Continental Can Co. Mr. Vanderlip went to the board meeting of the Company declaring that he would not resign, yet he did so when he discovered that his fellow-directors unanimously seconded Mr. Harding's request...
...King is permitted voluntarily to resign, retaining for life the title of King of the Hellenes, four-fifths of his civil list income and almost all of his estates...
Frank A. Vanderlip, onetime President of the National City Bank of Manhattan: "Because of my voluntary activity in the oil investigations, I was requested by J. Horace Harding, a member of the board of the Continental Can Co., to resign as a director of that Company. I complied. Said I: 'The only thing I can say is that those who take that attitude will be very much ashamed later...
...Attorney General reached Washington last week with a smiling face. He had been at Miami for a few days visiting Mrs. Daugherty, who is not well. Contrary to advance reports. when the Attorney General reached Washington he did not resign. Instead, he sat down to wait for what the Senate Committee which is investigating him would...
...Newspapers published the picture* of Right Reverend William Temple, Bishop of Manchester, 43, son of the illustrious late Archbishop of Canterbury. Rumor picked him to succeed Archbishop Randall Davidson, 76, who, it was said, would resign on account of age. True, Bishop Temple has friends in the Labor Government; but Archbishop Davidson is unlikely to give a Labor Government the chance to appoint his successor. Furthermore, a slight acquaintance with Canterburian tradition would reveal that its Archbishops yield only to death...