Word: resignment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weeks ago the University of Chicago celebrated Alonzo Stagg`s fortieth year as coach of its football team. The day before yesterday, the Daily Maroon, undergraduate newspaper, published an anonymous letter urging Stagg to resign his caption. "The Daily Maroon takes this opportunity to present without comment a communication received from a student of the university. Members of the university community who hold other views are invited to make use of this column...
Punching & Pulling. Thus the Second Republic disestablished Mother Church, but the fight to cripple her in Spain had only begun. Her devout son. Provisional President Alcala Zamora, bellowed from the Government Bench that he could stomach disestablishment but no more. Reminding the members that he resigned (for one hour) as President when a Deputy insulted his honor (TiME, Oct. 19), President Alcala Zamora threatened passionately to resign permanently...
First ministers to resign were the four Generals in the Cabinet: Joaquin Amaro (Minister of War) ; Lazaro Cardenas (Interior) ; Saturnino Cedillo (Agriculture); Juan Andreu Almazan (Communications). Able Finance Minister Luis Montes de Oca and the other civilians resigned some hours later, but rumors persisted that they would soon go back to their posts. It seemed evident that yet another military revolution had been brewing, a brew chilled by canny General Calles before it could boil over. Over the cafe tables it was insisted that the father of this military miscarriage was General Joaquin Amaro, a cyclopean full-blooded Tarascan Indian...
Pandemonium. Amid cheers and jeers members of the Cabinet clustered round resigned President Alcala Zamora, arguing, pleading, coaxing him to reconsider. Alcala Zamora refused to budge so long as the insult to his honor stood. For 63 minutes Spain was without a President. Finally Insultor Jiminez was persuaded to resign his committee chairmanship. Mollified, Senor Alcala Zamora withdrew his Presidential resignation, gingerly sat down on the Government bench again...
...wish to resign," said he, "but the difficulty of forming a new Government makes it imperative for me to continue indefinitely. However, the hour has arrived when you gentlemen must begin to consider my successor...