Word: resignment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bank. The small, dynamic priest buttonholed Ticonderogans, bluntly demanded or cleverly cajoled contributions. Today Ticonderoga National Bank has some $1,000,000 in assets. In gratitude its directors elected Father Stevens to their board, made him honorary vice president. Fortnight ago the bank's President Roy Lockwood resigned in ill health. Unanimously the other Protestant directors chose Father Stevens to succeed him. Last week he accepted, aware that only nominally would he fill the unprecedented role of banker-priest. His term expires in four months; his only duties are to sign papers, attend meetings. Said...
...average Harvardman, Roscoe Pound is a detached intellect with a round, cheery face and a green eyeshade, seated in the centre of a huge horseshoe desk, periodically emitting pithy dicta. Last week the intellect emitted a dictum of unusual interest: one year hence Roscoe Pound will resign as dean of the Harvard Law School. Reported Harvard's pressagent: "Dean Pound will continue to hold the Carter Professorship of Law. He explained that he wished to devote more of his time to writing, particularly to completing a book on jurisprudence...
...which their Party was being led by the anti-Fascist zeal of the Trades Union Congress's proletarian Socialists. Believing that not "force" but consistent Pacifism must always and ultimately be the guiding principle of British Labor, Lord Ponsonby, the Labor Party's leader in the House of Lords, resigned last week. Its leader in the Commons, "Old George" Lansbury, again threatened to resign. The Young Labor rival Herbert Morrison, who is most anxious to succeed him, announced that he smelt a Geneva...
...hatted, tail-coated Diplomat von Papen arrived at Austria's famed Ballhaus ("White House"), heavy with historic memories of Metternich and the Congress of Vienna. Very small in the big rooms looked Dr. Schuschnigg. With brutal directness the German Minister said that he "advised" the Schuschnigg Cabinet to resign and appoint as their successors the Nazi Cabinet slate approved by Herr Hitler. At this, so ran the story Dr. Benes' personal news-organ had from London, the Austrian Chancellor burst into tears, sobbing hysterically as the German Minister impatiently stalked...
...doctors, Prohibition, insanitary restaurants, pronounced on many a suicide and murder that perplexed police, made his name and detective work known in medico-legal circles the world over. Underpaid ($6,890 per year), he footed bills for equipment and technician's salary from his own pocket, twice threatened to resign, was persuaded to reconsider. He called the morgue the "Country Club...