Word: resignations
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Tammany Hall, in offering two candidates for the position of sheriff lately held by Thomas A. Farley seems more anxious than usual to get control of an office and less confident of doing so. The last incumbent, who was asked to resign as a result of the Seabury investigation, was a son of the Tiger and by the appearance of his bank account, no idle son. Whom Roosevelt will choose to succeed him is, therefore, a matter of grave concern...
Ever since Britain has had a Cabinet to govern it, a Cabinet Minister who could not bring himself to agree with his fellows was expected to resign. This unbroken precedent was broken last week...
With a smile that was childlike and bland Chiang Kaishek, famed first President of the Nationalist Government, arrived in Nanking last week. A thousand chastened members of the Kuomintang party assembled to welcome him. Only six weeks ago these same men forced him to resign the Presidency. He left and his opponents shouted to the winds that they were heartily glad...
After four days in the capital General Dawes took a 4 p. m. train for Chicago. At 7 p. m. E. Ross Hartley, his onetime secretary, announced: 1) Mr. Dawes would serve as delegation chairman only through the preliminary weeks of the Geneva conference; 2) he would then resign as Ambassador to Great Britain; 3) back in Chicago as a private citizen he would resume the board chairmanship of his Central Republic Bank & Trust Co. The bank's stock jumped from 82 to 104 on the news...
Another of the scientific staff to leave on a long journey last week was President Henry Fairfield Osborn. Next New Year's Day he will have completed 25 years as museum president, 41 as a curator. Then he will resign the presidency, remain perhaps as president-emeritus, perhaps as honorary curator-in-chief of fossil vertebrates...