Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...went to General Johnson, asked to have Professor Ogburn removed from the board. In Chicago the economist got a telegram telling him he had been transferred to another job which later turned out to be nonexistent. He raced back to Washington to fight for his old position, decided to resign instead. He bitterly complained of Mrs. Rumsey's amateur methods and personnel, obliquely flayed the appointment of Mrs. Johnson to handle consumers' grievances. Meanwhile Mrs. Rumsey had suffered a nervous collapse, gone off to Newport to recover...
...rebellious officers, who had gathered outside Havana at Camp Columbia. Promises, threats and a storm of rage from President Machado produced no result. The officers stood sullen until finally Lieut.-Colonel Julio Sanguilly, Chief of Aviation at Camp Columbia, spoke: "With all respect, General Machado, you must resign before noon tomorrow!" Other officers plucked up courage, made the same demand...
...Studios. The guns did not fire, but soon Castillo de la Real Fuerza and all other Havana garrisons aimed their guns at the Palace's dome of yellow glazed tile. Subordinate officers told sly, grandfatherly little War Minister General Alberto Herrera that he must tell President Machado to resign. When the War Minister refused he was arrested, forced to promise "on my word of honor as a Cuban, an officer and a gentleman" that he would beard the President...
...York, in order to carry out the terms of a lease negotiated by Mr. Noland and Mr. Rounds, who were to manage the same, with the then Saratoga State Reservation Commission in 1915. I was not at that time a member of that Commission, having had to resign because my obligations as a Government Director and Deputy Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York prevented my longer continuance in any other official position...
...chiefly by still another two-week shortening of the school term, a payless week for teachers. But the audience, happily accepting Dean Judd's figures, would hear of no more school economies. Ignoring Superintendent Bogan, they adopted unanimously resolutions: 1) demanding that the Board rescind its order or resign; 2 & 3) calling on Mayor Kelly and Illinois' Governor Henry Horner to intervene; 4) extending "profound thanks and appreciation" to William Randolph Hearst and the editor of the Herald & Examiner...