Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Minneapolis, Mr. Newton had been elected in 1918 to the House where by his wits he had worked himself up to a position of Republican importance. When Mr. Hoover took office in 1929, he felt the need for better contacts with the House leadership, persuaded Representative Newton to resign his seat and join the White House staff. As the President's liaison agent, Secretary Newton chinned with his one time colleagues in Capitol lobbies, helped wangle through the Administration's measures, ran political errands and otherwise worked hard and well for his chief. But Secretary Newton...
...certain cogent arguments against the employment of student waiters in the Houses that have influenced the University's attitude thus far. It has been found at the Union and at the Business and Medical Schools, where student waiting is in operation, that a number of waiters have had to resign because of sickness, course conflicts, and the pressure of their studies. For these reasons, and because they work only every other day, and have to be excused when taking examinations, they have in the past been found to be less efficient than full-time waitresses. Furthermore, in developing the House...
...first seat in Parliament in 1906: another bankruptcy forced him to resign in 1912. In 1918 he was back again with a plurality big enough to cause serious concern that he was about to become Britain's next Prime Minister...
More than 50 other German-Jewish professors of pure, applied and medical sciences have either been forced to resign or have been rudely thrown out of their chairs. No other eminent scientists have followed the example of Professor Hermann Jacobsohn, Indo-Germanic philologist at Marburg, who threw himself under a train. But many a Jew in Germany is known to be carrying an ampoule of poison for escape in case of race riot...
...mounting Conservative opposition in the Cortes, the Socialist government has always stated that it would never resign until the law of religious congregations was passed, breaking the power of the Church, and a general program for the Republic established. Conservatives have kept the Church bill, passed piecemeal, from becoming law by festooning its articles with hundreds of amendments, talking for days. Premier Azana last fortnight drummed up the votes of every Cabinet Minister, even of deputies out on diplomatic missions, to jam through by one vote what Spanish deputies call the "Guillotine," a cloture rule which the government can invoke...