Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bernstorff: That, of course, is impossible. Germany cannot abandon submarine warfare. No government could come out and say: "We give up the use of submarines." They would have to resign...
Months ago famed Swedish Humanitarian Eric Dahlberg warned his countrymen what might be the result of Haile Selassie's visit to Stockholm in 1925 as Prince Regent. On that occasion the little Ethiopian persuaded crack Swedish officers including General Virgin to resign from the Army, took them to Addis Ababa where they have trained Ethiopian troops. Said Herr Dahlberg: "We are not sure but what if Italian aviators fail to get our Swedish military instructors at Addis Ababa they may not try to get some of our Swedish ambulance units in the field...
Last week his hat came sailing back into the ring. Tardieu began a comeback with the peculiar maneuver of resigning from the Republican Centre Party and attacking its President Paul Reynaud for having attacked fortnight ago Premier Pierre Laval and the Hoare-Laval Deal to dismember Ethiopia (TIME, Jan. 6). The effect of this slash from a claw of "Tiger" Clemenceau's cub was that within 24 hours M. Reynaud was obliged to resign his Party's Presidency and demands were heard that M. Tardieu be elected his successor...
...grim Premier Laval, at bay last week on his front bench, scores of Deputies screamed "Resign! Resign!" Hysteria mounted until a reference to "my country" by the Premier subjected him to a torrent of demands that he speak instead of "our country." This he thereafter did with evident galling bitterness of soul. In their element were the forces of French antiFascism, led by millionaire Socialist Leon Blum. "Mr. Premier' he crushingly observed, "I am surprised, nay I am amazed, to see that you are still 'Mr. Premier.' There are some mistakes which a public man does...
...whiskers. He called to his office the proud three, Merton S. Yewdale, editor-in-chief for ten years, and his two associate editors, Louise T. Nicholl and Samuel Middlebrook, told them that their refusal of the Christmas bonus was evidence of dissatisfaction and disloyalty, told them to accept or resign. With one voice the three resigned...