Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Premier does resign, there seem three candidates for the vacant position: 1) Stanley Baldwin, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who, from the nature of his position, has been more in touch with Bonar Law than any other man in the Cabinet. He has also considerably increased his prestige by his handling of the budget. 2) Lord Derby, the Secretary of State for War. Lord Derby's knowledge of the continent and his known sympathetic understanding of the Ruhr problem would make him a popular candidate. He is also regarded as an excellent politician, having held many important Cabinet posts...
...return of ex-Senator George Chamberlain, Oregon Democrat, to fighting politics is the ardent hope of fighting Democrats. He plans to resign from the United States Shipping Board in June, and will probably seek election to the Senate next year...
Rumors persist that Ambassador Harvey will shortly resign his post as American Ambassador to the Court of St. James. Nothing definite is known, except that the report seems to rely for its authenticity upon a statement made by an American Embassy official that Mr. Harvey wished to stay in America at the time of the Baldwin debt negotiations; and the Ambassador's preamble to his now famous Pilgrim speech in London, when he said: " I am utterly destitute of the traditional weapons of diplomacy...
Prof. Albert Einstein: " I resigned as a member of the League of Na- tions Commission on Intellectual Cooperation. In a letter to the Secretariat I said that I thought the League lacked both the strength and the good-will to accomplish its task, and, as a pacifist, it was necessary for me to resign...
...been announced that Mr. A. W. Moffit who volunteered to coach the Smith Halls crews this spring, has been forced to resign on account of ill health. H. G. Curran '25, who has recently been on the University squad, will take over the supervision of these crews in the future...