Word: resignment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cadet Parham, appointed from Chicago by Negro Congressman Oscar De Priest, entered the Academy last summer (TIME, July 15). Almost at once he fell behind his class in mathematics (algebra and geometry). Once when he was about to resign Congressman De Priest came to see him, urged him to "stick it out." He started special coaching, stopped after a week. His grades in mathematics were so consistently low that his classmates suspected he was "boning foundation" (inviting discharge by failing to work). They felt that, though there was no hazing, no discrimination, he would not have entered the Academy...
...does not! The only way to make the world respect the integrity of the Reichsbank is for the Reichsbank to refuse to enter into this immoral agreement. But it is now a question of law! I must obey German law or emigrate. It is suggested that I ought to resign. I will not resign to please anybody. I will resign only if I am wrong. I will continue to obey German...
This rift, symbolic of that which is discernible throughout the Protestant church, had, another direct consequence last week when Dr. Samuel G. Craig of Princeton, editor of The Presbyterian (weekly), onetime board member of Princeton Theological Seminary, was forced to resign his editorship by vote of the board of Presbyterian Publishing Co., Inc. Said he: "The occasion of this action on the part of the board was its dissatisfaction with the editorial policy I have steadfastly pursued and which I was unwilling to alter, especially with reference to Princeton and Westminster Seminaries." Steadily had Dr. Craig's editorials assailed...
...Committee on Committees. This committee stalled in a deadlock when four of its members (Reed, Moses, Bingham, Deneen) voted for Senator Goff for the Finance Committee while four others (Capper, Nye, Oddie, McNary) voted for Senator La Follette. Declared Senator Reed Smoot : "I haven't said I'd resign as Chairman [of the Finance Committee] if Senator La Follette is named but I feel I should if the Committee falls into hostile hands...
...Congress adjourned the Executive Committee in its character of Government immediately called upon the 145 members of the Central Indian Legislative Assembly to resign. At once 23 did resign. The Government then fixed Jan. 26 as the date for a "nationwide demonstration." Great was the triumph of India's ascetic little Saint, famed Mahatma Gandhi, boss-politician and demigod of the Congress. Usually he wears only a loin cloth, but at the final session at which his Declaration of Independence was adopted he appeared exclusively clad in a large white sheet which flapped dramatically as he gestured...