Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whose presence in the chair of the Republican National Committee, he, as the party's head and front, is primarily responsible, was in serious trouble. One Senator after another came to tell the President that, for the party's good, he should ask Chairman Huston to resign. Chagrined though he was with his old friend's behavior, President Hoover was unwilling to turn him out precipitately, seemed hopeful that the scandal would, somehow, subside without his direct interference. In spite of Mr. Hoover's attitude, betting men about Washington would give long odds to anyone...
...only course open to you, the Judge, is ... either to resign your post or inflict on me the severest penalty . . . for [doing] what in law is a deliberate crime, and what appears to me to be the highest duty of a citizen. ... I do not expect [acquittal and the judge's resignation] but by the time I have finished with my statement, you will perhaps have a glimpse of what is raging within my breast...
...still it was quite possible that Mr. Davis would remain in the Hoover Cabinet for years. He may be defeated in the primary. When asked if he would resign to make his campaign, he retorted: "Certainly not! Did Al Smith resign [as New York's Governor] when he ran for President?" Instead of picking a defeated candidate as his example Mr. Davis might with equal force have recalled, as winning presidential nominees, Democrat Thomas Woodrow Wilson, who remained Governor of New Jersey until three days before his inauguration as U. S. President, or Republican Warren Gamaliel Harding, who kept.his...
...nipped this plan. Summoning the Centrist leader, Dr. Heinrich Briming, he pounded his desk with his gnarled fist, announced that unless the Young Plan was ratified by a majority large enough to show unmistakably that the Reichstag stood behind the government, the entire cabinet of Chancellor Hermann Muller would resign. Impressed, the Centrists voted. Then President von Hindenburg signed the bill and, further to calm public opinion, issued a lengthy press statement...
...made him a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor. The pleasure which Delegate Koenigsberg might have experienced from the decoration was not shared by his boss. Publisher Hearst wrote an editorial saying that no man of his should accept the baubles of a foreign land. Moses Koenigsberg had to resign...