Word: resignment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...since Sullivan set tunes to Trial by Jury has Justice provided a more diverting tale than that told on himself by Lord Sankey: ''When I became Lord High Chancellor and went to the office of my new post, I found a letter there stating that I must resign as a judge of the King's Bench and send my resignation to the Lord High Chancellor. So I posted a letter to myself, resigning from King's Bench, replied with a letter thanking myself for the services I had rendered the State as a Lord Justice...
...Lord Chief Justice of England, rolypoly Baron Hewart has a viciously humorous temper, flies into apoplectic rages at any rumor that he may resign: "I'll never resign! I'll never retire!! Never, never as long as I live...
Philadelphia elders whispered behind closed doors last week. Philadelphia's youth shouted its grievances in the sedate old Academy of Music (see col. 2). Conductor Leopold Stokowski made sad little speeches, appeared deeply hurt. Curtis Bok, president of the Orchestra Association, asked the entire orchestra board to resign. When the board objected, Mr. Bok and his very rich mother, who is the daughter of the late Cyrus H. K. Curtis, quit...
...June 1933 President George A. Sloan of the Cotton Textile Institute walked into the White House, slapped down on President Roosevelt's desk a cotton textile agreement which, with modifications, became the first NRA code. When Mr. Sloan tried to resign as chairman of the Code Authority and president of the Textile Institute last summer, the industry would not hear of it. Fortnight ago the Institute re-elected him president. Last week, complaining of the "double load of important activities," he compromised by keeping his job with the Code Authority but resigning his job with the Institute. Goldthwaite...
Veblen was neither a clubbable nor an attractive man (he never called any of his friends by their first names), but in spite of his poverty, his rawboned, stoop-shouldered, ungainly appearance, women liked him. He was twice married, twice had to resign a teaching post because of scandalous rumors. On the second occasion, when friends warned him of impending trouble, Veblen fatalistically replied: "What is one to do if the woman moves in on you?" This philosophic detachment was typical of him. He was accustomed to giving all his students the same low grade, never checked their attendance, seldom...