Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While the British Admiralty prepared to tuck away its Home Fleet in the safety of Milford Haven, the Leader of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition, stubborn "Old George" Lansbury, 76, explained last week the aggressive Pacifism which caused him to threaten to resign as Labor Party Leader when the proletarian Socialists of British Labor's Trades Union Congress fortnight ago urged war if necessary to restrain Fascist Italy. Never a militant trade unionist, Mr. Lansbury warned Laborites last week at Dumfries: "War, either by the League against aggressor or by one State against another would leave the world more unsettled...
...basis among all nations," Christian Socialist Lansbury cried: "Britain is the greatest Imperialist power in the world. The call which Christ gave to the Rich Young Man to give up his riches is the same call which Britain should heed now!" Hoping to Heaven that peaceful Old George will resign, ambitious Herbert Morrison, the Cockney Labor boss of the London County Council who expects to be the next Labor Prime Minister, rushed about last week rousing his constituents with the platform cry: "Mussolini is an irresponsible fanatic with bloodthirsty tendencies. The people of Italy ought to overthrow...
...Church had won the first round by getting peppery Dr. J. Gresham Machen suspended (TIME, April 8 et ante). Round No. 2 involved Dr. James Oliver Buswell Jr., member of the Chicago Presbytery, president of Wheaton College, who was haled before a judicial commission for failing to resign from the Independent Board. Last week, upon the commission's recommendation, the Chicago Presbytery dismissed the charge against Dr. Buswell because, according to Presbyterian law the indictment against him had been improperly drawn...
Last May Dr. Simon Flexner, director of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research since its organization 33 years ago, went to John D. Rockefeller Jr. and said in effect: "I want to resign. I am 72 years old. I am weary. I want to write a biography of Dr. William Henry Welch." Mr. Rockefeller agreed, told Dr. Flexner to pick his successor. Dr. Flexner found a man a few blocks up the street whose appointment, after due investigation and consideration, the Trustees and Scientific Directors of the Rockefeller Institute announced last week...
...William Hallock Park, director of New York City's bacteriological laboratory since 1894, is nine months younger than Dr. Simon Flexner (see above). Dr. Park does not want to resign his job. But municipal pension and compulsory retirement systems will force Dr. Park out within two years...