Word: resignment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Robbins deliberately joined Kohler after cancellation to make a test case. Because Kohler never held a contract, but operated under a subcontract which became effective only two days before Mr. Farley took office, its past record is "clean." Mr. Robbins will resign to save Kohler's face, give it a chance to bid again. But to save the industry's face he is far from done with fighting Mr. Farley...
...money and property are concerned, I suspect I am the poorest man in the Senate. . . . But I would find some other way of making a living without accepting fees from those who have business with the Congress of the U. S. or I would go home and resign...
Even after the votes were in, tellers withheld the count 15 min. to give Boss Curry a chance to resign. But over his friends' protests, John Curry chose to become the first Leader voted out of office in Tammany history. Dazed, the old man looked from face to face about him. "I am at a loss to know why some of you voted against me. . . . Didn't I call you up Monday to tell you I was making you a Sachem. . . . Why, only 15 minutes of 5 today I did a favor for you. ... I hope you have...
...judges clamped on Yukichi a sentence of ten months in jail and a 17,000-yen ($5,000) fine. Big Brother Senjuro could not help feeling that, as the public officer responsible for discipline in the Army, he should accept his responsibility for his brother's sins by resigning. Mildly the old Genro tried to dissuade him, pointed out that Brother Yukichi had been indicted before Hayashi was made Minister of War. Hayashi was firm. And last week, despite the Cabinet's unanimous protest, he resigned, rocking Saito's boat for the sixth time. Meanwhile a faction...
...Railroader Leonor Fresnel Loree bought control of Missouri-Kansas-Texas Lines ("Katy") which he planned to merge with his Kansas City Southern and with St. Louis Southwestern. The Interstate Commerce Commission refused to approve the merger, forced Railroader Loree to dispose of his holdings, resign the chairmanship of Katy. Last week his successor, Board Chairman & President Michael Harrison Cahill, also resigned, for personal reasons (wife's illness). Katy directors left the presidency vacant, elected as chairman bold, shrewd Matthew Scott Sloan who abruptly resigned from the presidency of New York Edison Co. in 1932. "Matt" Sloan, whose first...