Word: resignment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Secretary of the Treasury. William Hartman Woodin, 64, had 21 important directorships to resign when President-elect Roosevelt picked him for this portfolio after Carter Glass turned it down. The appointment of such a successful manufacturer of railroad equipment to head Federal finances heartened U. S. business. Secretary Woodin is a "hard money" man who can be counted on to oppose all schemes for currency inflation. He was a stanch Union League Republican until, as fuel administrator for New York in 1922, he came under the spell of Governor Smith, whose presidential candidacy he supported...
...Congress, New York's Hamilton Fish Jr. has dropped his demand that President Hecht resign as chairman of the New Orleans R. F. C. advisory committee...
Most publicized of her quarrels was with Bishop Manning. Because she had been divorced and remarried 30 years before, in 1926 he suddenly asked her to resign from the board of the Home for Children which she had endowed. To this Mrs. Belmont had not only her usual last word, but two last words. A cable from her grandson, the Marquess of Blandford, asked her to stand with George V at the christening of her great-grandson. "Bishop Manning repudiates me and accepts my gift," said she. "But the Archbishop of Canterbury permits me to stand with his monarch...
...November things were different. On the one hand losses in Germany's general election shrank the Hitler Party, still largest, from 230 to 195 Reichstag seats. On the other hand, popular hatred and unrest at the reactionary policies of the "Cabinet of Monocles" forced Chancellor von Papen to resign (TIME, Nov. 28). When Der Osaf* was summoned a second time to the Presidential Palace he was bidden to sit down by Der Reichspräsident for what Germans call a "conference of four eyes"-i. e. not even a secretary was present. Called in for a moment, State Secretary...
...appointing this Cabinet," warned the Socialist Vorwärts, "the President has assumed a fearful responsibility. He is the guarantor that this Government shall not depart from a constitutional basis and that it shall resign immediately as soon as defeated in the Reichstag...