Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reported from Washington that Attorney General Daugherty looked worn and tired. If so, his fatigue may well have been caused by the repeated reports in the daily press that he was about to resign-"tomorrow," "within 48 hours," etc. For the first week, at least, the reports were unfounded. It was even declared positively that the President had asked for Mr. Daugherty's resignation. If so, he was slow in tendering it. After a conference with the President, the Attorney General departed on a "mysterious" trip to Chicago. He attended the final sessions of the grand jury which indicted...
Yesterday afternoon the Harvard Debating Union met to elect a new chairman to take the place of Chariton MacVeagh '24 who was forced to resign because of the pressure of his work. Philip Walker '25, of Brookline, President of the Debating Council, was chosen to succeed...
...Senator Wheeler of Montana made a speech in the Senate advocating a resolution that Attorney General Daugherty should resign. He said that "everybody knows" that Daugherty was a friend of Sinclair and Doheny. Thereupon Mr. Doheny wired the Senator: "The fact is that Mr. Daugherty and myself are not friends and that I never saw him but once in my life and that was on a formal official occasion. ... I have never had any relationship of a business or friendly nature with Mr. Daugherty, nor have I ever directly or indirectly addressed to or received from him any communications whatever...
...father, a Member of Parliament until his son's act forced him to resign, and his married sister exiled themselves to Java in order to escape the scorn which Namba, Jr., has called down upon the family...
Minister President von Knilling, who was ill, was also expected to resign. His place is likely to be taken by Minister of the Interior Dr. Schweyer...