Word: resignment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...against the salary. Others felt that 62-year-old Mr. Beaty, whose friends call him "Judge," was not giving the A. P. I. its money's worth. When the A. P. I. held its convention in Houston last week Mr. Boyd let it be known that he would resign should Mr. Beaty be reelected. He did not have to, for instead of Mr. Beaty the A. P. I. directors chose Judge Charles Bismark Ames, first vice president of Texas Corp...
Since Europe's next war is apt to be fought over the Polish Corridor, it was bad news for Europe when M. August Zaleski, "The Briand of the North," resigned last week as Foreign Minister of Poland. Tall, big-boned and pallid because of a plugged artery, Peace Man Zaleski has sat more often than any other statesman on the Council of the League of Nations. Insiders call him the real author of the Briand-Kellogg Peace Pact. In the past two years he has immeasurably bettered relations between Warsaw and Moscow, obtained the signing of a Russo-Polish...
...President Wilson had determined upon his course of action in the event of his defeat. That was to appoint Mr. Hughes Secretary of State and then have the President and Vice President resign. Mr. Hughes would have become President at once and the interval of waiting would have been abolished...
...parliamentary form of government which, in a crisis, falls as soon as it has lost popular support. Up to this week no Republican had yet suggested that in the event of party defeat President Hoover replace Secretary of State Stimson with Governor Roosevelt and then, with Vice President Curtis, resign...
...group of white vestrymen, led by one Manuel Jesus Roure, who blamed it all upon the rector, a lank, thin-lipped onetime curate of Trinity Church named Rev. Rollin Dodd. The vestry ordered Rector Dodd to cease encouraging the Negroes. When he refused the vestry asked him to resign, stopped his salary. When this failed they had the church closed, "for repairs,'' and the locks changed. Declaring the ceiling might fall any moment, they had scaffolding...