Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rising in the House of Commons with an injured air, Snapper Oswald said that he had just felt obliged "as a Socialist" to resign his (minor) Cabinet post: Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. He could no longer stomach the Government's "muddling methods" in dealing with Britain's great problem of the day: unemployment...
Spitfire speeches by Sir Oswald and his followers made "Uncle Arthur" glower for once. Jumping into the fray he threatened, in the Prime Minister's name, that the Cabinet would resign if the party censured Mr. MacDonald. Potent, this threat sobered many of the malcontents. Several begged Sir Oswald to withdraw his motion. White-lipped, encouraged by Lady Mosley's confident smile, he stood his ground, demanded a vote...
Busybodied newsmen dug up the Cagle marriage certificate. Cadet Cagle was in the infirmary after a tonsillectomy last week when his perjury was reported to Maj.General William Ruthven Smith, Academy superintendent. Within 30 minutes Cadet Cagle was again plain Mr. Cagle. General Smith let him resign instead of courtmartialing...
...spread that Rector Velasco had broken a promise. His ecclesiastical brethren in the diocese of Lexington, Ky., had known of his courtship. Therefore, before his ordination, he had been asked by a committee of the diocese to pledge that in the event of his marrying a Catholic, he would resign his orders. Greatly exercised by Rector Velasco's deed was Right Rev. Henry Pryor Almon Abbott, Canadian-born onetime rector of Chicago and Baltimore churches, Bishop of the Lexington diocese since May 1929. Soon both Bishop Abbott and Rector Velasco had plenty...
Between Anton and Alois Lang is no great friendship, nor any notable rivalry. Long ago Anton signified his willingness to resign the role. There was the matter of his age, and resignation did not mean the loss of money. The Passion Players receive negligible salaries - one-fourth of the profits, another fourth for expenses, another for furnishing the pensions, an other for communal purposes. Said Catholic America last week: "A dentist's bill which Mr. Lang contracted after the Passion Play was eight times as large as the sum he received for . . . 68 performances." Possibly, however, Anton Lang resents...