Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After reading the attorney general's report, the Governor of Massachusetts last week wrote to the police commissioner of Boston: "I require the immediate presentation of your resignation." Commissioner Wilson declined to resign, replied that he was "conscious of no neglect," criticized the attorney general for "garbled phraseology...
...week, it bore Dwight Whitney Morrow away from the Naval conference at London where he had been a U. S. delegate back to Republican politics in New Jersey where he was a candidate for Senatorial nomination in the June primary. Confronting him were two questions: 1) When should he resign as U. S. Ambassador to Mexico and take the Senate seat to which he had been temporarily appointed? 2) How should he stand on Prohibition? If he went immediately into the Senate, he would have six weeks to give to his primary campaign, though his managers were advising...
Last week Mr. Kellogg was permitted to resign as both general manager of Grain Corp. and vice president of Stabilization Corp. The customary excuse was used: "The pressure of other affairs which will require his undivided attention." But there were few wheat men in Chicago who did not believe that Mr. Kellogg, despite his three-year contract, had been eased out because of the botch he had made of U. S. wheat trading, the ill will he had engendered among growers and dealers alike...
Merger. Last week stockholders of Phelps-Dodge Corp. held their annual meeting, learned two important things. First was that Walter Douglas, president since 1917, will resign and be succeeded by Louis Shattuck Gates, vice president of Utah Copper Co. Second was that Mr. Gates may soon head a much bigger company, for engineers are inspecting the properties of Phelps-Dodge and Calumet & Arizona Mining Co. to decide on the advantages of a merger...
Long has Alexander Meiklejohn fought ritualized education; championed intellectual freedom. When forced to resign the presidency of Amherst in 1923, loud were student protests; thirteen refused degrees...