Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...food really fit for a King can any longer be eaten by His Majesty," one of Buckingham Palace's chefs complained last year and last week ''Chummy" asked permission to resign...
Until last week nobody considered "Jimmy" Walker a quitter. Even after he turned out to be the first Mayor of New York to resign under fire, hundreds of thousands of citizens refused to think the worst of him. Radio Crooner Morton Downey, Publisher Generoso Pope (Il Progresso-Italo-Americano) and Theatre Man Alfred Cleveland Blumenthal were among the first to rush to his flower-filled Mayfair apartment on Park Avenue where he was lolling around in blue silk pajamas and assure him that, even out of office, he was still "the greatest fellow on earth...
...going to resign...
...would-be assassin bloodied his face (TIME, Feb. 17, 1930). He finally had to admit, "A situation of political crisis has existed from the beginning of my administration, making the work of my Government weak and insignificant." Last week after denying for several days in succession that he would resign, Mexico's harassed Great Engineer resigned...
...shot the cabinet meeting broke up in confusion. General Sanjurjo ordered a seven-course lunch. Premier Azana called a second cabinet meeting while the General had his siesta. When he awoke he learned that the second meeting had ended without a decision because Radical Socialist members had threatened to resign if the sentence were commuted. General Sanjurjo ordered a vermouth as the cabinet went into a third session. Three hours before sundown Premier Azana announced to the Cortes that the cabinet had asked President Niceto Alcala Zamora to commute the sentence to life imprisonment, that the President had signed...