Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cabinet. He had, they whispered, broken with President Roosevelt over the latter's currency inflation program pending in Congress. Was he not a "hard money'' man from New York? Had he not been absent from his office for days? How could he do less than resign...
...Reports that I am about to resign have been industriously promoted during my illness. I wish you would deny them as emphatically as you can. ... I feel that my work in the Treasury is just beginning. I am supremely happy. ... It seems to me most unsportsmanlike that any one should take advantage of my illness to circulate such falsehoods. . . . All of these rumors, including the comment that my seat in the Treasury would be 'so hot that I would need a pair of asbestos pants' can be relegated to the realm of dreams. I am with the Chief...
...first Battle of Bull Run he got, 32 years later, a Congressional Medal of Honor. Appointed Provisional Governor of Mississippi in 1868, he was sent to the U. S. Senate in 1869, elected Governor in 1873. Reconstruction strife forced him, last Northern Governor of a Southern State, to resign three years later in the face of impeachment proceedings...
There have been rumors that Dr. Davison would resign at the end of this year but he definitely stated that he had no intention of giving up his place for several years to come. His regular sabbatical leave of absence should have come this year, but he postponed it because of the opening of the new chapel...
...high tariff on agricultural products. His jobs: Minister of the Interior, Minister of Industries, Minister to Italy, Special Ambassador to Argentina, member of the National Administrative Council. A year after his 1930 election he toured inland Uruguay, speaking out for a change in the Constitution, offering to resign the Presidency to hasten reform. Then he favored Switzerland's commission form of government or a chief executive with a Cabinet elected by Parliament. He warned Uruguayans strongly against a strong executive head like the U. S. President...