Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is one other small point. My pacifism is not as recent as the reference to that point might suggest. I was a pacifist during the last War and for several years thereafter and was forced to resign my pulpit during the War because of that. Then I had a period when I was out of both the church and the pacifist movement, returning to both...
...were looking into various charges of graft and corruption, and the Treasury Department was checking the income tax reports of Dr. Smith and several politicians. There were reports that Governor Long would call a special session of the Legislature to fire a few officials who were reluctant to resign. Earl Long, worrying about getting elected for a full term next year, didn't say he would and didn't say he wouldn...
...Well, everybody, the fat is in the fry, politically, as I hereby formally announce my candidacy for Congress to succeed Marvin Jones. My latest information is that Marvin will resign this summer to accept a Federal judgeship. . . . And [his] successor will...
...Pension convention. Just a few weeks prior, the gaunt, grey doctor had at last driven his Plan to a vote in Congress, had seen it overwhelmed 302-to-97 (TIME, June 12). He now offered his followers to resign as their leader "when you find a superman* to take over the work...
When investigators from WPA and the Department of Justice sped to Baton Rouge, Dick Leche welcomed them on his sickbed, where arthritis born of infected teeth had him down. And he announced that illness constrained him to resign, bequeathing the governorship to Huey's ambitious, vituperative Brother Earl, the Lieutenant Governor. Said Richard Leche: "Mr. Long has tremendous backing throughout the country and is the announced choice of Mayor Robert S. Maestri of the city of New Orleans...