Word: resignment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...free myself as much as possible from imperative duties to the end that I may have time to read many books which I have not had time to read in a busy life, to travel and to serve my neighbors and some public causes. ... As a beginning ... I hereby resign...
...some time to come, however, the G.O.P. must resign itself to the part of a minority group--alert, critical, compactly-organized, with a well-defined philosophy. So shattering was the Roosevelt triumph, so sweeping the New Deal victory in Congress that the appellation of "minority party" is hardly more than a courtesy title at the present time. It cannot be over-emphasized that such under-representation of so large a minority is extremely unhealthy. One need not turn to Europe for illustration; the excesses of the G.O.P. after the Civil War, the worst mistakes of the present administration, frame...
...modern history, in which Fish, able, conciliatory, determined, blocked Sumner's extravagant demand that England pay for the prolongation of the Civil War in the same fashion that he blocked Secretary of War Rawlins' demand for an attack on Spain. By patience, vigilance and frequent threats to resign, he prevented worse Presidential blunders than those that disgraced Grant's two Administrations...
...fault, incompetent men. They demand from their advisors the voluminous ever-changing rules governing courses, and are bitter if the instructor makes the smallest mistake in the facts. Dean Leighton has found that the older professors--the best advisors who take the most effective interest in the students--will resign if held accountable for laws better picked up at University C. If Freshmen were less insistent that reknowned scholars know in what exam group French B is, more such men would join the board...
Died. Jesse Isidor Straus, 64, U. S. Ambassador to France from 1933 until ill health forced him to resign two months ago (TIME, Sept. 7), longtime (1919-33) head of Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co., one of the world's largest department stores; of pneumonia; in Manhattan...