Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hearst castle at San Simeon tell of the wistful note in the querulous Hearst voice: "I'd like to buy it, but Mr. Neylan won't let me." He usually buys it anyway, and Chancellor of Exchequer Neylan finds the money. Periodically Chancellor Neylan threatens to resign. The fact that he does not has nothing to do with the fat Hearst retainer. From many another client rich Jack Neylan is making all the money he needs to provide for all he cares about - his wife and daughter, Jane Frances (now a senior at University of California...
With the conclusion of this last flight on the West Coast I hereby resign from the Bureau of Air Commerce effective on the receipt of this wire. In order to expedite the report it is written in flight to be sent upon landing...
...present disturbance President Carlos Mendietia has refused to resign and Colonel Batista, the head of the army, and real power behind the present government, has instituted martial law, while the remaining labor unions which had not yet been called out are now going on strike. Although the government is being supported by two strong parties, the Menocalistas and the Marianistas, a serious revolution does not appear improbable...
...destruction of the papers on his partner, Frederic P. Lee. In the Senate, Vermont's Republican Warren Robinson Austin almost started a party fight by taking up MacCracken's protest. In the House, Texas' voluble William Doddridge McFarlane introduced a resolution demanding that Prisoner MacCracken either resign from the Government's National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics or be impeached...
...volubly telling how Presbyterian Modernists were persecuting him and other Presbyterian "Bible-believers" (TIME, Dec. 31). The indictment, brought against him by the New Brunswick Presbytery which still claims his allegiance, was a six-point elaboration of the fact that he had defied his Church's orders to resign from the Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions. The trial was limited by the Book of Discipline to one session every ten days. That it was even held publicly was a concession to Dr. Machen, who from the beginning was disposed to cry "Star Chamber...