Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opposition newsorgan in Danzig was promptly suppressed by the Free City's exuberant Nazis for five months. Danzig officials said they would "ignore"' High Commissioner Lester, who was rumored about to resign. A correspondent who called on Nose-Thumber Greiser was told: "You should have seen the faces of the delegates to the League Council. Ja, you just should have seen their faces! . . . Our success in Geneva is having profound effect. We would welcome the appointment of a German as High Commissioner, since a German would understand the situation in Danzig-or even an American would...
...place of Augusto Rosso. Last week President Roosevelt returned the compliment, announced that his good friend Undersecretary of State William Phillips would succeed Breckinridge Long as U. S. Ambassador to Italy next autumn. A chronic case of stomach ulcers had forced Ambassador Long to resign...
...Baldwin had taken secluded refuge in the country while the Opposition belabored him in the House of Commons, was more than ready to hear that he was about to resign. Stanley Baldwin stepped into his limousine at last and was driven 35 miles to the House of Commons where only his henchmen cheered. That night he went to the 100th anniversary banquet of the City of London Conservative Party organization, was greeted by the refrain, "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow!" and made a speech such as only frankly bumbling Stanley Baldwin can get away with...
...Received the Prime Minister, now very much under political clouds, with far from spontaneous cheers by Conservative M. P.'s of For He's a Jolly Good Fellow! Afterwards the Tory Party whips whispered to their cheering parliamentarians that Stanley Baldwin will not actually resign before he leaves Britain for his usual August vacation in France...
...Niceto Alcala Zamora was recently forced to resign as President of (1 Spain, 2 Portugal, 3 Brazil, 4 Cuba, 5 Mexico...