Word: resignment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...currency inflation, once started, could be controlled, has been returned to the realm of theory by the realization that the government did not intend to start it. In retrospect, it is difficult to see what positive dangers existed of sufficient magnitude to lead the Treasury's chief adviser to resign in such spectacular fashion...
...mood has given way to riots which are being conducted in deadly earnest and which are being suppressed in the same spirit. Last night two people were killed when troops fired on the mob in the Place de la Concorde, while frenzied crowds outside the Chamber of Deputies shouted "Resign! Resign...
...Rumor had it that he [Walter Joseph Cummings, onetime president of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.] and his 'personal friend,' the Comptroller of the Currency, did not get along together. Rather than have him resign, his other personal friends, William Woodin and Franklin Roosevelt, preferred to provide him with another good job, and Mr. Cummings had his eye on Continental Illinois...
This 5-to-1 oversubscription of a big Treasury loan was the last big job of Secretary Morgenthau's assistant, Earle Bailie, who had had to resign because of his Wall Street connections. Next day Mr. Bailie complacently packed his bags to leave Washington. Marriner Stoddard Eccles, big Mormon banker of Ogden, Utah arrived four days later as a special Treasury assistant, bringing his Leftwing-ish ideas of debt cancellation and high income and inheritance taxes. Secretary Morgenthau, asked what Mr. Eccles' job would be, replied, "I don't know yet." Asked what man would succeed...
Last week President-elect Jardine, announcing he would resign as State Treasurer March 1, was cheerful about his return to academic life. Said he: "An excellent opportunity is offered to accomplish much that would be impossible in an old, established school...