Word: resignment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: Have your operatives anything further to report on Buckingham Palace Chef Chummy'' Tschumi's threat to resign? (TIME, Sept. 19) If he has quit the royal kitchens he will not be the first to do so-and for the same reason. The great Careme, one of the most noted of French chefs, was hired during the reign of George IV, at a salary of 1,000 guineas a year. But he resigned after only a few weeks, complained that King George didn't appreciate his finest efforts, but kept asking for boiled beef...
Embarrassed, but unable to refuse a royal resignation, Il Duce concentrated on keeping at heel the Italian Line's directors, half of whom were said to want to resign and two of whom sent in resignations which were ignored...
Soon after M. S. Rex broke down at Gibraltar, fortnight ago, Rome heard rumors that His Royal Highness Prince Luigi of Savoy, Duke of the Abruzzi, would resign as president of the Italian Line because of the breakdown...
...Your Excellency, I am 73 years old!" cried Director Vittorio Rolandi-Ricci, one-time Italian Ambassador to the U. S. and now a senator, dealing with Il Duce. "Surely, on account of my age-entirely on account of my age-I should resign...
...Signore," came the Premier's flattering reply. "I cannot permit you to resign. You have the spirit...