Word: resignment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This belittled and interfered with fundamental education of the young men and women preparing for their life work. And because Dr. Suzzalo tried to form a political machine of alumnae to get more & more money, he was asked to resign, and no doubt is able to carry on his fine work better in a privately endowed and managed institution...
...returns, it means that the Nazis and other Right Wing Parties will have a total of 277 seats. The Socialists and other Left Wing Parties will muster 241 seats not counting the all-important group of 89 Communists. European observers saw no reason for Chancellor von Papen to resign his Government, felt that the unexpected strength of the Socialist and Communist vote would bind him to milder utterances and a more moderate foreign policy unless he and Minister of Defense von Schleicher attempt to rule by open dictatorship...
Cause of their asking was the following train of events: Premier Ki Inukai was assassinated by Japanese cadets (TIME, May 23). War Minister Lieut. General Sadao Araki, who should thereupon have resigned (according to Japanese tradi tion), did not resign but accepted the resignation of General Nobuyoshi Miito, who was then Director of Military Education and directly responsible for the cadets. General Miito, far from being demoted after his resignation, was assigned to the Supreme War Council (TIME, June 6). Last week came a climax. General Miito, it was reported, is to be sent to Manchuria in supreme command...
Other members of the L. S. U. medical faculty threatened to resign unless Dr. Irwin were retained. Two did so. At Tulane all stayed serene...
...railroad," Canadian National's robustious Sir Henry Worth Thornton has said time & again, "is never finished." Last week the veracity of his remark was once more impressed upon him. After a decade in the presidency of Canada's great public-owned rail system he was forced to resign. And while CNR's service has benefited immeasurably from Thorntonian touches, his job was far from finished, the CNR was far from becoming a moneymaker...