Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sheffer publicly flayed the churches for their machine-like governments, their excessive "talk about God." He encouraged dances in his quarters in the church, twice lent his pulpit to his good Presbyterian friend Norman Thomas. But it was not his theological or social liberalism that caused Pastor Sheffer to resign last week. Bluntly from his pulpit he explained...
...Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., an additional liability for $676,000 and an unlimited liability after July 1 unless the deposit insurance law is modified. Yet, Mr. Baker found that new Federal laws as a whole had affected his bank "but little, except in one respect." Three directors had to resign because they were connected with the securities business...
...Cutrer, who was forced to resign as editor, said Dr. James M. Smith, University president, "told me he would not do anything to offend Senator Long; that he would rather fire me, my staff, destroy the School of Journalism, and fire 4,000 students...
...succeeded in publicly floundering in so much hot water as Smedley Darlington Butler. After a gallant career in all quarters of the globe with the Marines, General Butler was ''borrowed" by Philadelphia in 1924 to clean up that city's bootlegging. The hot-headed general resigned the following year, declaring that he had been made the respectable "front" for a gang of political racketeers. In 1927 he made front pages again by preferring charges of drunkenness against a Marine colonel in San Diego, Calif, following a party at the colonel's home. Four years later General...
...super-Tory Morning Post alarmed that the Linlithgow Report "confirms the worst fears of the Conservatives of the country." On Dec. 4 moderate Conservative Stanley Baldwin will stake his position as Leader of the Party before its Central Council on the Linlithgow Report. He threatened last week to resign if defeated by die-hards Winston Churchill...