Word: resignment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This year, James J. Gaffney Jr. '37, of Danvers, Massachusetts, succeeds Emile Dubiel '37 who had to resign because of scholastic straits. Last year, Robert Haley handed in his resignation on the request of the H. A. A. Shaun Kelly was chosen as his successor...
...press conference one day last week President Roosevelt announced that his equally warm friend, Ambassador to France Jesse Isidor Straus, who fainted while reviewing a Bastille Day parade in Paris, had been forced to resign his job because of ill health. Half-hour later a one-line White House release announced that Ambassador Straus's successor at Paris would be William Christian Bullitt...
Your Aug. 17 issue speaks of Joseph W. Bailey Jr. as "son of Texas' late great Senator." As Joe Sr. had to resign from the U. S. Senate because of his accepting money and favors from John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil, I fail to see where he achieved any greatness. To me he ranks with Jim & Ma Ferguson as cheap politicians whose memory makes decent Texans blush with shame...
Alumni of big Methodist DePauw University complain that in spite of its 1,300 students, its leafy campus in Greencastle, Ind. and its comfortable presidential house, DePauw's presidents consistently resign to become Methodist bishops. Of the six head men DePauw has elected since 1903, four hastily left it in the lurch as soon as Methodism's General Conference beckoned. Last of these was liberal, orotund G. (for Garfield) Bromley Oxnam, newly installed Methodist Bishop of the Iowa and Nebraska area (TIME...
...Francis E. ("The Plan") Townsend received the Press, thoughtfully rejected a suggestion that he might be the next President of the U. S. "I wouldn't be a candidate," mused the 69-year-old onetime country doctor, "except on one condition-That I could unite the people and resign the day after election. As long as I'm able to wiggle, I'd like to be able to do a little dictating to the President, and I think I could do that better from outside than inside the White House...