Word: resignment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Amalgamated Sugar Co. and headed a construction company which got a big job out of Hoover Dam.* Last week, aged 43, Marriner Eccles came to the Treasury as special assistant to Secretary Morgenthau-to advise him how to finance the greatest peacetime deficit. But Earle Bailie, forced to resign that ticklish job because of Senatorial objections to his Wall Street connections (TIME, Jan. 15), stayed on long enough to advise on last week's momentous gold-doings. Mormon Marriner Eccles, in good standing with the Twelve Apostles of his church, also gets credit for liberalism because he favors large...
Rumor had it that he 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. "Naturally," said Mr. Cummings, "I am pleased . . . that I have been invited by the entire board of directors of the Continental Illinois ... to be chairman of that institution's board." Then he rushed to Chicago where he was promptly elected to his new post...
...compromise presidency of Hevia failed when Guiteras, Secretary of War and Interior in the Grau San Martin cabinet, announced that the radical steps which he supported must be carried out and that his arch-enemy, Colonel Batista, must resign. In order to accomplish this, at his instigation the employees of the Cuban utilities trust went on strike and the government was forced to take over the company; yesterday morning all employees in the departments of Communications, Interior, Justice, Public Works, Instruction, and Health went on strike. Senor Guiteras then retired into his stronghold in the provinces. With the gauntlet thus...
...Loesch grinned slightly when he recalled his first attempts to clean up Chicago under the Thompson regime. "It took us two months to get rid of Big Bill's police chief, Hughes. Once we got him before the grand jury, the Thompson machine itself forced him to resign. The work we then started back in 1928 has not stopped; today men such as Police Chief Allman are valiantly fighting crime in Chicago. Definitely less corruption exists there than in New York...
Finally some Federation members took their first aggressive action of the week when a group of Southerners stomped off a convention dance floor because three Negro delegates were present. They threatened to resign from the Federation if the Negroes were allowed to remain. The Negroes politely withdrew. But after sweating over the problem in an all-night session the Federation's executive committee decided to uphold its constitution, which bans racial discrimination. The Negro delegates attended the grand ball & banquet...