Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London the Royal Commission on Civil Service sat pompously on the question of Englishwomen who, by keeping their nuptials secret, circumvent the law requiring them to resign as Civil Servants when they marry...
Meanwhile Mr. Huston clung stubbornly to his chairmanship. His friends implored him to resign for the party's good, which he vehemently refused to do. He kept far away from the White House, perhaps lest President Hoover see him, demand his resignation. In the Senate, Democrats primed their fowling pieces to blaze away at Mr. Huston when Muscle Shoals legislation, on which he had lobbied, came up there this week...
Herbert Hoover is a president in the correct sense of the word. No Irishman is. But there is a man called "The President of the Irish Free State." * Last week he had to resign...
President Hoover could be impeached, but short of that neither law nor custom could force him to resign, even if all his pet projects were defeated in Congress a thousand times. Last week in Dublin, however, an adverse majority of only two votes in the Dail Eireanu forced "President Liam T. MacCosgair (William T. Cosgrave) to hand his resignation to the Governor General of the Irish Free State, His Excellency James McNeill, appointed by King George...
Incensed. Sir Arthur retorted: ". . . [The work of the Society] is an evil influence-is anti-spiritualist." He called for other members to resign with him. Replied the Society: "There is nothing but an honest difference of opinion. While Sir Arthur regards spiritualism as a 'cult,' the Society was founded to carry on critical investigation...