Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There he continued until the Harding Administration came into office. At that time it was understood that he wished to resign. Secretary Mellon persuaded him to remain, however, and as a special inducement had Congress create a new post, that of Under Secretary of the Treasury with a salary of $10,000 a year. (The salary of an Assistant Secretary is $5,000; of a full Secretary $12,000.) In this position, next to the highest post in the Treasury Department, he worked out with Mr. Mellon the details of refinancing the Victory Loan and short-term debts...
...Resign all Government posts...
Maurras also claimed that he and his followers, like the king, were above the law. Said he: " When the social contract is broken, men return to a state of nature and retake their liberty. Resign yourselves, therefore, gentlemen, to having to allow...
Paris was threatened with a ministerial crisis when the Radical and Radical Socialist parties called upon three members of Premier Poincaré's Cabinet to resign. The three Ministers: Senator Paul Strauss, Minister of Hygiene and Social Prevision; Deputy Albert Sarraut, Minister of Colonies, delegate to the Washington Conference; Deputy Paul Laffont, Under Secretary of Posts and Telegraphs...
...Radicals asked the Ministers, also Radicals, to resign because they declared that the Cabinet was supported in office by "traditional adversaries of the Republic." The Left seems entirely convinced that Premier Poincaré has a sneaking regard for the Royalists, and it was partly because of this attitude that they recently voted against the Government on a question of internal policy...