Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Robert H. Todd, Representative of the Porto Rico Republicans on the Republican National Committee, refuses to go near the Governor's palace at San Juan. He offered his resignation, but the Committee cabled asking him to remain in office. Federal Judge Arthur F. Odlin, appointed by President Harding, has . threatened to resign. Reports from Washington indicate that the Administration considers the whole matter a bad business and will place no constraints on Governor Towner. The situation in Porto Rico is expected to add to the interest of President Harding's visit there on his return from Alaska...
...view of the virtual reparations crisis existing on the Continent, it is extremely improbable that the Cabinet would resign over a minor issue such as that of the language dispute. It is therefore probable that in inclining toward Anglo-Italian proposals for a reparations policy Premier Theunis became caught in the cross-firing of the French. Unwilling to alter his policy and at the same time pressed by Poincare, French Premier, there was nothing for M. Theunis to do to avoid a rupture either with Britain and Italy on the one hand and France on the other, except resign...
President Li Yuan-Hung was forced to flee from Peking under pressure from the Militarists. At Tientsing, capital of Chihli province, the presidential train was stopped by soldiers of the Governor of Chihli. President Li was forced to resign. He had, however, taken the precaution of giving his seals of office to Mrs. Li before leaving the Chinese capital. Application of the "third degree" made Li speak and Mrs. Li hand over the seals to the leaderless Cabinet in Peking...
...Stratton succeeds Dr. Ernest Fox Nichols, former President of Dartmouth and Director of pure science in the Nela Research Laboratories, who served as President of Tech for a few months in 1921 but was compelled to resign on account of ill health. In the interregnum the Institute has been administered by Elihu Thomson, famed inventor of electric welding, who is one of its trustees. M. I. T. has specialized in electrical engineering and is the chief training school for the general staff of the industry in America. Stratton will cause no break in the succession of electric experts...
...meeting of the Board of Governors of the Consolidated Exchange it was believed that reforms would be inaugurated: 1) that its members would be ordered to waive immunity, as W. S. Silkworth, its President, promised the Attorney General's office; 2) that Mr. Silkworth would resign the Presidency; 3) that the Consolidated would be " reorganized" according to a plan drawn up by its attorneys...