Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This is the end!" he cried, "Not only are the Socialists opposed to my Government, but my personal honor has been assailed. I resign...
...Durham, famed cathedral town, The Flying Scotsman made an unwonted stop. Nearby lies Seaham, the Laborite constituency which Mr. MacDonald still represents in Parliament, though excommunicated from the Party. As everyone knows, Seaham's Laborite Council has demanded that he resign his seat (TIME, Sept. 7). But the Prime Minister returned to sullen Seaham last week, convinced that he could explain and justify his policies, hoping that Seaham would have him for her own again as a Laborite. Repeatedly Scot MacDonald has exclaimed to his new Conservative and Liberal colleagues in the National Government, "If only I had time...
...train drew into London, but Mr. MacDonald did not awake. No one called him until 7. Swallowing a cup of station tea, he drove to No. 10 Downing Street, put on fresh clothes, drove to Buckingham Palace-the place where Prime Ministers resign...
...made off into the Igorot country. Back from the Igorots, who pleaded against immediate independence as did the Moros, Secretary Hurley made his first official utterance in the islands. It was not about insular independence. "For several months." said he, "Governor General Dwight F. Davis has wanted to resign owing to illness in his family.* Filipino leaders have suggested that, instead of resigning, he go on leave of absence in order to visit his family before making a final decision. I concur in this suggestion, having urged the Governor General to adopt this plan instead of resigning." At Manila both...
...honest statements that are bound to prick a few of the self-righteous and certain to upset these in authority. Dr. Ruthven hardly can be much more than a politician since he must remain in accord with the state board that forced Dr. C. C. Little to resign. It is therefore easy to see how these outspoken and iconoclastic comments might have disturbed his dignity. But he found the right method of combat. He merely withdrew the 900 subscriptions to the daily which the University purchases for its faculty members...