Word: resignment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When Lilienthal was reappointed Dr. Arthur did not resign, as threatened, but tried to get President Roosevelt to approve the principle that the Board could act only after a unanimous vote. Failing in that, he tried to tie the Board's hands by going away for a long rest...
Reported on the point of resigning for months has been Under Secretary of the Interior Charles West, who has really functioned as a Congressional contact man for the White House and whose presence Secretary of the Interior Ickes has openly deplored. Last week Mr. West, whose office staff had departed ahead of him, actually did resign. Announced promptly was Mr. West's successor as Under Secretary of the Interior: his special assistant. Harry Slattery, who was also assistant to Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of the Interior Franklin Lane, later helped do the groundwork exposing the Teapot Dome scandal...
...Liar!" in which some Conservatives joined greeted a Government declaration that "British factories are filled to capacity with orders!" After hours of acrimonious debate, the Cabinet won a vote of confidence by only 299-to-131, and it was clear that Swinton would have to be permitted to resign, as planned by Tactician Chamberlain, to provide a scapegoat for the unpopular "American purchases...
...Integralistas was a move to restore the monarchy. Founded in 1822 by Dom Pedro I, son of Portugal's King Dom Juan VI whom Napoleon frightened into the New World, the Brazilian Empire lasted until an uprising of landowners and army in 1889 forced Dom Pedro II to resign. Today his grandson, handlebar-mustached, white-haired Dom Pedro, lives a guest of the Brazilian Government on his tax-free Gráo Palace at Petropolis, outside Rio. Young Dom Juan last week stoutly insisted he "was merely trying to join the excitement...
...carry on his social reforms. Catholic members, loud in their demands for cuts in Government expenditures, promptly bolted M. Janson's coalition, joined their own bitterest enemies, the pro-Nazi Rexist party of Léon Degrelle, to vote against the tax proposals. M. Janson then chose to resign...