Word: resignment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate when Minnesota's Republican Thomas D. Schall should come up for re-election next autumn. Suddenly, last fortnight, a Senate seat was dropped into Governor Olson's lap when Senator Schall died after an automobile accident (TIME, Dec. 30). Farmer-Laborite Olson had only to resign as Governor and let his Lieutenant Governor appoint him to the Senate. Being a shrewd politician he knew that such a maneuver would look too raw to his State...
...Governor John E. Erickson of Montana got to the Senate that way only to have his constituents, apparently resentful of a "horse trade,'' retire him at the first chance. Besides, if Mr. Olson should resign to go to the Senate, his Lieutenant Governor Hjalmar Peterson would almost automatically become the Farmer-Labor candidate for Governor in 1936. What Governor Olson obviously needed was a Senator pro tern, someone who would take the job for a. year, then quit willingly and help elect Floyd Olson to the U. S. Senate. Who would be so likely to fill this bill...
...multitude failed to cheer, seemed sulky. At this His Majesty, with an air of feeling perfectly at ease, extracted the royal handkerchief and blew the royal nose, a homely sound which drew first grins, then cheers. Two weeks ago the King, having forced erstwhile Dictator General George Kondylis to resign as Premier, was challenged. Newsorgans controlled by Panayoti Tsaldaris, whose henchmen hold a majority of seats in Parliament, demanded that Parliament be convened by the King to confirm or reject his restoration...
...mascot cat, which sniffed the board before each game, could stave off Dr. Euwe's determined efforts. In the 25th game, Alekhine sacrificed two pawns in the opening, hoped to snare his opponent's queen. Watchful Dr. Euwe withdrew the piece from danger, forced Alekhine to resign, went into the lead for the first time. Two days later he won the 26th, then lost the 27th. The next two ended in draws...
Last week Edward F. Hutton, uncle of Countess Barbara Hutton Mdivani Haugwitz-Reventlow, resigned as board chairman of General Foods Corp.* Of three possible reasons for his retirement only one was given in the official explanation: ill health. Still living quietly on his 16,000-acre South Carolina shooting preserve, Mr. Hutton intended to resign, said the directors, "when the evidence was sufficiently clear that the Depression was subsiding." Smart Executive Vice President Clarence Francis was upped one notch, and President Colby M. Chester was made board chairman and chief executive officer...