Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After much wrangling the arrangement was modified. William Starling Sullivant Rodgers, tall, thick-set vice-president, was elected president, Jack Lapham became chairman of the executive committee and Mr. Holmes was shelved as board chairman. Week later at a board meeting Mr. Holmes pre-emptorily demanded resignations from the Laphams and four other directors. When they were refused Jack Lapham moved that Mr. Holmes resign and if he did not that he be ousted. Mr. Holmes was automatically out. Kindly Charles Bismark Ames, a former vice president, was recalled from the American Petroleum Institute to head the board. Last week...
...opposition politicians, themselves pretty disorganized. When Dr. Grau San Martin went stiffly to dicker with them for support, he first decreed the dissolution of all political parties, then refused to give them any hand in the Government. They gave as the first condition of their support that he resign. Scoring their "impertinence," President Grau San Martin nevertheless had good grounds for fearing last week that he was about to pass on into History. While a coalition of his opponents mulled over an ultimatum to serve on him, President Grau San Martin philosophically announced: "The person who occupies the government...
...President Teagle of Stanco, who led the fight for free oil prices, it was a bitter defeat. He had seen Sococal, often a maverick in the Standard family, stampede to the price-fixers, drawing Sohio with it. He had seen his $100,000-a-year vice president James Moffett resign to help draft the code. And last week he saw Price-fixer Moffett go on the P. C. C. as one of the NRA's three representatives, saw Presidents Kingsbury of Sococal and Holliday of Sohio go on as representatives of the industry. Only other company committeemen were Presidents...
...Moley denied, and so did Secretary of State Hull, that the. resignation resulted from bad blood between them. But every one remembered how, in the opening days of the Administration, the Assistant Secretary, as the President's personal representative in the State Department, far outshone the Secretary in the headlines ; how Dr. Moley called at the White House morning, noon & night, was a member of the exclusive Roosevelt bedside Cabinet; how he, an economic nationalist, clashed with internationalist Secretary Hull before, during and after the World Economic Conference, to which Moley's visit as the President...
...right, my boys!" the President suddenly exclaimed. "I'll resign." He dashed back to the Palace, drove next morning out of Havana to his estate. Through Havana spread the electrifying word: "Machado is through! Loot the Palace...