Word: resignment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...side of business- which is part of his usefulness at a time when the Administration is trying to win the confidence of business. Because of his open taking of sides in the Recovery Board's debates, it was at one point suggested that he resign the gavel to the Board's Executive Secretary Leon Marshall-which he did. During the discussions of the recently adopted cigaret code he did not try to be impartial, simply withdrew from the meetings when the subject came...
...Spanish sovereign. Banker Fraser was an expert in international finance, had helped organize B. I. S., built up its profitable business in League of Nations loans and transfers among Europe's central banks. All his B. I. S. associates sincerely deplored his announcement last month that he would resign. Last week it was learned that Banker Fraser had been invited to become vice president of rich, conservative First National Bank of New York, whose President Jackson Eli Reynolds likewise became a bank executive without previous banking experience...
...would henceforth be different from what it was under Frederick Howe. Administration eyes were cast around to find innocuous jobs to appease Mr. Frank & friends. Yet Dr. Tugwell's nose was out of joint. He turned on a newshawk who remarked, "Well, you won't resign," and snapped...
Scouting rumors that he would resign, friends of Ambassador Bullitt saw him safely to a Philadelphia hospital where he was to have treatment for an infection...
...York City civic associations rose up and roared against Secretary Ickes and President Roosevelt. The city's newspapers made out an airtight case of political spitework by the New Deal against last year's Republican nominee for Governor. Mr. Moses refused to resign either of his jobs. Instead he revealed that as early as last February, and twice since, Secretary Ickes had asked New York's Mayor LaGuardia to remove him from the Bridge Authority as unfriendly to the New Deal. Put on the defensive, Secretary Ickes barked: "When I issue an order...