Word: resignment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Damned If I'll Resign...
...though they had let their quarry escape, made a thorough job of smashing all the Colonial Building windows, battering doors and desks to splinters and scattering State papers by the armful in the street. Solemn, impassioned promises by highly respected citizens that Premier Sir Richard Squires would positively resign or call a Newfoundland election within 48 hours finally got the smashers out of the building. But they rushed directly to two of St. John's State liquor stores, burst them open, stole every bottle and spent a night of bemused swizzling during which nobody was injured...
Next night Premier Sir Richard Squires was back at his badly damaged desk. Said he: "Damned if I'll resign!" But up at Government House the valet of Governor and Commander-in-Chief Sir John Middleton had regretfully unpacked his things. The Governor's secretary had canceled his passage to England...
...announcement that Mr. Bernard De Voto is to resign from his editorship of the Harvard Graduates Magazine calls to mind the marked change on policy of that publication during his two years at its head. From a scholarly production replete with erudite, inconclusive dissertations, Mr. De Voto has elevated the Graduates Magazine to an active organ of opinion. Its comments on the University, although occasionally forced in their attempts to be completely critical, have attracted wide attention through their usually keen perception and judicious proposals. New and interesting departments have been created for the expression of undergraduate, graduate, and alumni...
...lingering illness; in Philadelphia. As a young bacteriologist, he was credited by Sir William Osier with being the foremost figure in the U. S. in arousing medical interest in the then new diphtheria antitoxin. For seven years he was Professor of English Literature at Notre Dame. Forced to resign because of poor health, he researched in eye diseases, gained fame as an oculist...