Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After Franklin Roosevelt took office, he asked commissioner Humphrey to resign. Mr. Humphrey refused. President Roosevelt thereupon removed him, not for misconduct or inefficiency but simply because "the aims and purposes of the Administration with respect to the work of the Commission can be carried out most effectively with personnel of my own selection...
...mellow Scot MacDonald is an ideal figurehead, never more so than now as it faces an oncoming national election. MacDonald, however, is far from well. Over & over the Conservatives have prepared the voters for MacDonald's final fade-out by slipping out rumors that he was about to resign the Prime Ministership to Stanley Baldwin. Last week the chorus of rumors swelled, picked out a definite date, the Whitsuntide Holiday, June...
...Presbyterian Foreign Missions. Retiring Moderator William Chalmers Covert referred the matter to the Committee on Polity, which after four days of solemn deliberation set off a churchly furor by voting 21-to-1 to unseat the challenged three for their refusal to obey the 1934 Assembly's orders, resign from the Independent Board. Furiously cried one of them, Philadelphia's Rev. H. McAllister Griffiths: "The machine may find out that its high-handed tactics have at last awakened the Church to Modernist tyranny...
...King, candidate of the Unit Whigs and the languishing People's Party. Passed too was an amendment increasing the Presidential term from four to eight years. Part of Unit Whig King's poor showing may have been due to the fact that he was forced to resign the Presidency in 1930 after a nasty scandal connected with slave-running to Spanish Fernando...
That Dr. Carmichael was swapping a president's chair for a dean's without the prospect of something higher seemed unlikely to most observers. No secret is it that old Dr. Kirkland would like to resign and devote more time to raising his prize iris blossoms, famed among Tennessee horticulturists. Last week Oliver Cromwell Carmichael looked like nothing so much as Vanderbilt's next chancellor, the man who will put a new educational pattern into effect...