Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week's meeting of the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee, young guardsmen led by Michigan's Senator Yandenberg turned openly against Senator Moses as chairman. They asked him to resign. He refused. They complained that his campaign usefulness as a regular Republican had been ruined because: 1) he had characterized Western G. O. P. Senators as "sons of the wild jackass"; 2) in opposing the London Naval Treaty he had attacked President Hoover; 3) he had tried to make Otto Hermann Kahn the committee treasurer in defiance of other members; 4) he had supported Chairman Huston...
...Levands obtained nationwide mention when, after they had demanded that Alexander Legge resign as Chairman of the Federal Farm Board, Chairman Legge replied: "You may present my compliments to Max and Louis and tell them I said they can go to hell" (TIME, July...
...silence" had been ordered by Wafdist Leader Nahas Pasha, whom King Fuad recently forced to resign as Prime Minister, although he commanded 95% of the seats in Egypt's Parliament. The issue was clearly that of Democracy v. Autocracy, for King Fuad, a British puppet, was attempting to rule last week with a "Palace Premier," Ismail Sidky Pasha, who is not himself a member of Parliament and controls but three Parliamentary votes...
...technical defeat by a Prussian Socialist, President von Hindenburg was in ripe mood for drastic action when Chancellor Heinrich Briining of all Germany reported that in the Reich- stag the national Socialist party was continuing to hamstring his fiscal program. Already two luckless Finance Ministers had been forced to resign. The Socialists were blocking the Budget. What should two old soldiers do about these pesky Socialists?for Herr Briining too is an old soldier (Iron Cross...
When the count showed that Scot MacDonald's cabinet had been saved by three votes (later corrected to two), the sneaking 140 chorused "Resign! Resign...