Word: resignment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bachelor Heinrich Brüning (TIME, April 7, 1930 et seq.). Seventy-three Catholic Centre Deputies of the German Reichstag and 68 in the Prussian Diet were refused permission to join the Nazis last week and became ''men without a party." Most of them were expected to resign their seats. The decree of the Catholic Centre executives dissolving the party was piteously abject. They begged that Catholic dignitaries be "protected from slander" in the Nazi Press and that physical property belonging to Catholic Centrist Party headquarters be not confiscated. "A political revolution." they declared, "has placed German state...
...every right to live in No. 11 and is rated the real head of the ruling Conservative Party, but he joins in showing every deference to the party's titular Leader, beloved and bumbling Stanley Baldwin who (conscious of his shortcomings as a statesman) was always trying to resign during his two terms as Prime Minister (1923-24 and 1924-29). Today beloved Stanley Baldwin lives in No. 11 with the determined woman who would never let him resign, good Mrs. Lucy Baldwin whose archaic hats are as famed as the Queen's. That her husband...
...over, Mr. Baruch returned to Manhattan and Wall Street as the simon-pure capitalist who put his millions out to work for him and make more millions but took no regular business job. Mr. Peek induced General Johnson to resign from the Army in 1919, accompany him to Moline. There as president and vice president they took over Moline Plow Co., set out with high hopes to make millions of their own. But they had picked a dead cock in the pit. as Mr. Baruch could have told them. Failing to get the financing they had been promised, they were...
...Rollins College in Winter Park, Fla. in 1925 and has since made it noted, by some estimates, for fuddling eccentricity, and by others, for pleasant liberality. Last week President Holt was in a squabble and Liberalism was the issue. He had ousted two professors, caused a third to resign. He was easing at least four others out. Two students resigned and others were vowing nevermore to return to Rollins College...
...John Andrew Rice, onetime Rhodes Scholar, brother-in-law of President Frank Aydelotte of Swarthmore College, there stood last spring the curious accusations of 1) whispering in chapel, 2) creating campus cliques, 3) swimming insufficiently clad in Florida's warm waters. President Holt asked Professor Rice quietly to resign. Professor Rice declined. Presently President Holt discovered the American Association of University Professors was looking into the case. At once President Holt fired Professor Rice. Then two Oxonians on the Rollins faculty expressed sympathy with Professor Rice. Out went one and the other resigned. Meanwhile...