Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Secretary of State Cordell Hull was reported by the Baltimore Evening Sun last week considering resigning because of the President's approval of the Anglo-Italian Pact. Mr. Hull failed to resign, hotly denied he planned to. More plausible was a report that Secretary of Commerce Daniel Roper had written the President to say he would resign if his Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce was transferred to the State Department as State's Under Secretary Sumner Welles had suggested. Said Secretary Steve Early for the White House: "You can make a categorical denial that Secretary Roper...
...Baptist Sproll, head of the Church in Württemberg, had immediately been informed by the secret police that his security could not be guaranteed. He left his episcopal seat, Rottenburg, but presently returned. Last week the Nazi governor of Württemberg, Wilhelm Murr, demanded that Bishop Sproll resign his post, on the grounds that his "disloyalty" to the State was a violation of the 1933 concordat between Church & State-which the Nazis have violated so thoroughly that it is now a dead letter. Wrote Governor Murr: "Bishop Sproll does not recognize, it would seem, that Divine Providence...
...British aircraft the Air Ministry were accused of having ordered over 6,000 modifications of the original plans they had "approved." Since well before last Christmas, driving, dictatorial Air Secretary Lord Swinton had been the target of assertions in the largest British papers that he must and would resign, and a suitable occasion would certainly be to offer Swinton as a scapegoat for "unpopular American purchases." The Viscount has been a fixture in Conservative cabinets off & on for 15 years, his friends were confident last week that the Prime Minister will not ease him out, and Swinton is stoutly defended...
Wigglesworth did not resign before the onslaught, but rallied in the last half of the ninth chalking up three runs. When the last man was struck out Wigglesworth had three men on base...
Soon after the Nazi majority in the diet election of May, 1932, Bruening was forced to resign by the more extreme conservatives, to be succeeded the next winter by Fritz von Papen, who carried through Hitler's coup d'etat...