Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Circuit Judge Taft observed his legal ability, marked him as a good man. President Roosevelt brought him to Washington in 1907 as an assistant Attorney General, sent him back to Tennessee the next year as a U.S. District Judge. When in 1922 ill health forced Justice Mahlon Pitney to resign from the Supreme Court, Chief Justice Taft recommended to President Harding the appointment of "Ed" Sanford as his successor. On the high bench Justice Sanford belonged instinctively with the conservative majority, particularly on economic questions. He rarely dissented...
...himself, answered evenly: "Aside from the damnable insinuation that a man like Mr. Young might use information, if given, for purposes of speculation, the report is absolutely false. I desire to assert emphatically that not even the German Government, but only President von Hindenburg, knew of my intention to resign...
Because the Young Plan which was scheduled to come up this week for ratification by the German Reichstag is not in his view the Young Plan he signed at Paris, Dr. Schacht considered it his duty to resign last week...
...simply didn't want to resign too late. I made up my mind to resign before the final vote in the Reichstag, not because I expect my action to influence the vote one way or another?I don't care what the politicians do; that's their worry, not mine ?but because I don't want anybody to say afterward, 'Oh, but if we had known you were going to do that we would have acted differently.' My act has nothing to do with politics; it is merely the moral act of a self-respecting...
Cries of "You're no leader, resign!" were hurled at Mr. Lloyd George when eight of his Liberals sat, arms folded, refusing to vote with him against the coal bill, causing Liberal whip Sir William Edge who voted for the coal bill to resign...