Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pennsylvania Railroad also chuffed over to the Democratic Nominee. Its president, William Wallace Atterbury, re-signed as the State's Republican National Committeeman because he refused to support Nominee Pinchot. Again exploded Nominee Pinchot: "My demand that Atterbury . . . either perform or resign has borne fruit. . . . Atterbury has been using the employes of the Pennsylvania Railroad on time paid for with its money to do his political bidding, to the serious cost of the stockholders of the road. . . . It is an outrageous abuse of the interests of the railroad. . . . His treachery to the party which honored him has made...
...hundreds, then thousands, then tens of thousands from all over the countryside on a weird, terrifying, peaceful march to Bucharest (TIME, Mar. 26, 1928). Squatting and sleeping 60,000 strong in the streets of the Capital, the peasants demanded that the then No. 1 Oligarch, Prime Minister Vintila Bratianu, resign...
...March Vintila did not resign. The multitude of peasants trudged wearily home to plant and plow. But what they had done gave Dr. Maniu the political potency to upset the Bratianu Cabinet in November, seize the Prime Ministry for himself (TIME, Nov. 12 & 19, 1928). Abruptly last week he resigned, would say only, "My reason is the state of my health. I shall devote myself to travel and recreation...
...State of Washington, onetime coach of University of Washington's championship footballers (led the Pacific Coast Conference in 1925); suddenly, of apoplexy, at Olympia, Wash. After last year's unsuccessful season, Washington alumni and undergraduates agreed to pay Bagshaw his contract salary for two years more if he would resign. He resigned. (Last week the Washington team trounced Montana...
...commission. He made of his affiliations with public officials and aspirants opportunities to talk oil, to make 25%- personal-profit sales. The Fitzsimmons property became known as "the Anti-Saloon Oil Well." Last week this admixture of Drywork and Mammonwork led him, Rev. Arthur J. Finch, to resign his superintendency in disgrace. Moreover, it caused the Colorado A. S. L. to decide no successor would be appointed, to admit temporary collapse...