Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enter the Republican primary and welcome nomination on the Republican ticket. The reason for this was obvious: he runs altogether too serious a risk of being beaten in the Democratic primary. That risk is not so much his as Tammany's, for he indicated that he would not resign his place in the Senate to make the race...
...Nazis. They are credited with having persuaded that non-Nazi German gentleman, Baron Constantin von Neurath, that it was his duty to stay on as Foreign Minister when, upset by the havoc Nazis were playing with the traditions of the German Foreign Office, the Baron had determined to resign...
Last week Minister of Justice de Laveleye handed his resignation to Premier van Zeeland who then, motored to the Royal Palace, entered the modernistic office of King Leopold through its sliding steel doors, advanced to the monarch's highly polished desk with its rows of gleaming private telephone connectors, and handed His Majesty the resignation of the whole Cabinet. This was a gesture upon which King and Premier had agreed, as emphasizing the resentment felt by His Majesty's Government against those forces which had compelled the Minister of Justice to resign. Leopold III promptly refused to accept...
Early last week rumors began flying in Williamstown, Mass, that President Tyler Dennett of Williams College was going to resign. Bristle-headed President Dennett, fishing at his camp near Lake George, N. Y., would not deny or confirm. Neither would Lawyer Bentley Wirt Warren, suave chairman of the finance committee of Williams' Board of Trustees. But when the story was published as fact by the Springfield Republican, President Dennett broke his silence to announce that for two weeks his resignation had been sealed, delivered, and accepted by the trustees to take effect Sept. i. "The sole issue between...
...with the Queen that the children should be allowed a little more choice about marrying. Max had fallen in love with a church social worker, who put him to work scrubbing floors. When the Cabinet learned she was the daughter of their worst enemy, the Archbishop, they threatened to resign unless the King did something about it. The King beat them to the draw by handing in his own resignation. On the day the King's abdication was to take place, the Prime Minister threw a bomb close enough to his carriage to make it look like an attempted...