Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...black public frown on potent politicians who campfollow a new administration into Washington, the Democratic National Committee lost only two of its 106 members-James Bruce Kremer of Montana and Robert H. Jackson of New Hampshire. Fortnight ago, after the President had repeated his views on lawyer-lobbying, resignations began to fall by the handful. By last week it became apparent that this phase of the New Deal was leading to a new Democratic shuffle of the political cards in the dexterous fingers of James Aloysius Farley, Postmaster General and chairman of the National Committee. ¶ Arthur Francis Mullen, Committeeman...
POSTMASTER GENERAL FARLEY'S call to all Democratic National committeemen or committeewomen to resign from the posts if they hold public office will have, as a matter of practical politics, little if any effect on the operations of the Democratic Party...
...throughout the world the Sisters of Charity are the largest Roman Catholic order of active nuns. A lay community not administered by the Church, the Sisters renew their vows of chastity, poverty, obedience and service of the poor every year on March 25. Any pious woman may join or resign at will. Their habit is a rough grey-blue gown and a "cornette" or white-winged headdress such as 17th Century French peasants wore. (In her later years St. Louise wore a form of widow's weeds.) The "Loyola Unit" of the Sisters of Charity were the only...
Washington, March 15 -- Predictions that L. W. Robert, Jr., Atlanta, Georgia building expert, would resign soon as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury were revived today when President Roosevelt, by executive order, removed him from the special board of public works, and substituted Rear Admiral Christian Joy Peoples as the treasury representative on that body...
...Antioch College of Yellow Springs, Ohio, to continue the great work of Horace Mann. This period of only two years is portrayed in the biography by many personal letters from and to the President. His troubles with the financial and sectarian situation, eventually leading to his decision to resign, are told in a manner which brings out his great ability and the exceedingly trying conditions under which he had to work. The letters from Hill gave in a way which no amount of second-hand writing can, the true character and nature of this man. And yet one does...