Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...very magnitude of the subject has obscured it. Its ramifications, social, political and economic are such that the taxpayer has been willing to resign the subject to the experts and foot the bill more or less graciously. Such has been the custom until recently. But it is one of the items on the credit side of the depression that it has produced a radical change in this attitude. Whether he wants to or not, the citizen today must be interested in economic questions...
Retiring. Dr. Harvey Gushing, famed surgeon and brain specialist; as professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School and surgeon-in-chief of Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. Reason: When he becomes 63 next April 8; hospital regulations will oblige him to resign...
...going to resign, Senores," said big, flabby-jowled President Gerardo Machado y Morales firmly to Havana newshawks last week. "In fact you can quote me as saying that I expect to remain President of Cuba until...
Fearfully Cubans wondered if these words ended the recent truce between Boss Machado ("The Rooster") and that equally cocky Cuban, Dr. Carlos de la Torriente, Leader of the Opposition. Since early December dickering had gone on, the Opposition demanding that the President resign; and since early December there had been no bomb outrage in Havana...
...night after Senor Machado announced that he did not choose to resign, normalcy returned. At precisely 1:30 a. m. a bomb exploded at the front door of a minor Machado henchman, Col. José Quero, Chief of the Tax Section of the Cuban Treasury. Nobody was hurt, as usual. The bomb merely blew in Col. Quero's front door, blew his library furniture into a pile of kindling wood, blew out most of the windows in his house. Just a reminder...