Word: resignment
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
General Fragoso and his brother officers were admitted to an anteroom where he paced up & down. In the adjoining library frantic ministers begged the "60-year-old President to resign. Turning his back on them he walked into his office, slammed the door. Just then General Fragoso opened the library door, stuck his head in. "I do not care to invade another's home," he apologized, "but where is the President...
...Eminence then entered the President's office, closed the door, opened it soon afterward to say that Washington Luis, son of the Catholic Church, would surrender, though he would not resign...
General Fragoso appeared in a trice, escorted President and Cardinal through a mob which began to jeer. "SILENCE! RESPECT!" roared General Fragoso. Respectfully silence came. The deposed President was conducted to the fortress of Copacabana. He did not resign last week, but his presidential term expires Nov. 15 in any case...
...When his great & good friend President Hoover made him Secretary of the Interior, Dr. Wilbur, as president of Stanford University, was given a year's leave of absence by his trustees. That leave expired Aug. 31. Last week the Stanford Daily, undergraduate publication, editorially demanded that Dr. Wilbur resign either his Cabinet position or his college presidency...
Lack of a quorum was advanced as the only reason why the Stanford trustees had not already approved Dr. Wilbur's application for another year's leave of absence. The Secretary was described as "particularly loth" to resign from the Cabinet until the disposition of charges against him and his department's administration of Colorado shale oil lands by Field Chief Ralph S. Kelley (TIME, Oct.13...