Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this month. ... To the end that I may have time to read many books, ... to travel and to serve my neighbors and some public causes, . . . and as a beginning of what I hope may be at least a partial realization of this philosophy of my later life, I hereby resign. . . ." He kept his word; the chief cause which he has served is the League of Nations cause. Last May he made an extensive speech-making tour (TIME, May 5). What he preached was League?League first, and other considerations afterwards: "I believe the future of the United States
SECRETARY OF THE NAVY DENBY announced that he would refuse to resign even if the Senate passed a resolution demanding his resignation, and added: "I am, of course, profoundly convinced of the legality of the action taken by the Navy and Interior Departments, and I am also profoundly convinced that it was for the best interests of the United States...
Shortly after these expressions Archibald B. Roosevelt and Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Assistant secretary of the Navy (sons of the late President), appeared before the investigating Committee and volunteered testimony. Colonel Roosevelt little more than introduced his brother "Archie Roosevelt declared that he had just resigned as Vice President of the Union Petroleum Co., the export auxiliary of the Sinclair Consolidated Oil Co., because his suspicions had been aroused over the activities of the Sinclair interest in connection with Teapot Dome. Following Senator Caraways declaration Mr Sinclair had sailed hurriedly for Europe, and he believed several others connected with the affair...
Subsequently Mr. Wahlberg denied that he had said "$68,000" but had said "six or eight cows," which Mr. Roosevelt must have misunderstood. He admitted, however, that he also had become suspicious of the transactions involved, was "very unhappy" in his post and was about to resign...
...Swiss method is that when a majority rejects a proposal of the ministry, it should not resign but merely change its policy to meet the wishes of the majority...