Word: resignment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Plow Co., made George Peek president at $100,000 a year. President Peek made Hugh Johnson, whom he had met with Bernard Baruch on the War Industries Board, his chief counsel. When New York and Chicago bankers took over the liquidation of the concern, Mr. Peek was asked to resign. He did so but later sued for future salary under his contract and recovered several hundred thousand dollars. General Johnson stayed behind, while Peek, now independently wealthy, went into a cornstalk processing concern which left him more time for his life hobby, farm relief...
Governor Bryan was loudly echoed by another Nebraska Democrat, onetime (1917-19) Governor Keith Neville, who beat Governor Bryan once in a primary and whom President Roosevelt appointed as State NRA chairman. Mr. Neville proceeded to resign from NRA because he felt "entirely out of sympathy with the manner in which NRA's program is being conducted in agricultural states. . . . The price of agricultural products, including livestock, in Nebraska today is less than was the case when the program went into effect...
...that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear. . . . -Revelation, 3: 18. In the Bible there are nearly 100 such references to nakedness. Last week they were cited by the indignant elders of 223-year-old Ponds Reformed Church in Oakland, N. J., in a solemn resolution accepting the resignation of one of their fellows. Rev. Ilsley Boone, longtime elder and sometime supply preacher, has been a prominent and active Nudist for two and one-half years. A small, white-haired, 53-year-old father of seven, he organized Nudist colonies in New Jersey and New England, helped found...
...Malloy, the chunky, round-faced Oklahoman who has put in four months at the Department of Justice as an Assistant Attorney General, announced last week in Washington that he was going to resign...
...Last week President Harry Augustus Garfield of Williams College. 70 this week. announced his retirement next June 30. He quoted famed Mark Hopkins: "I wish to resign that it may not be asked why I do not resign." Son of the 20th President of the U. S., Dr. Garfield practiced law in Cleveland, taught at Western Reserve and Princeton, became Williams' president in 1908. In 1917 Woodrow Wilson appointed him U. S. Fuel Administrator. Dr. Garfield is celebrated as earnest Dry and as founder of the Williamstown Institute, summer symposium of wise minds on world problems...