Word: resignment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...touch with the University," said the Globe, admitted that the Board would elect Kenneth Ballard Murdock, 36, Harvardman (1916), associate professor of English and master of Harvard's new Leverett House. Not only that: Professor Murdock, it was said, is being groomed to succeed President Lowell, who might resign (though Harvard stoutly denies it) at the end of this year...
...House of Commons passed the Economy Bill on its second reading: 310 to 253. Next, it was expected, would come discussion of a tariff. Reported leader of the movement was Liberal Sir John Simon, who had been wavering for many a month. Should a tariff eventuate, first to resign his job would be little Philip Snowden, stout free-trader...
Sure of himself, Scot MacDonald wrote once more to his constituents in Seaham who had asked him to resign. Said...
...with him a Croix de Guerre and a Swedish wife. First he was made business manager of INS; in 1928 he became its president and general manager. Like most Hearstmen, he was sensitive to the vast organization's undercurrents. Year before last he said he was going to resign to direct publicity for Abraham & Straus, Inc., Brooklyn department store. Whether or not that is the job he will take when he gets back from Europe, Newsman Mason would...
...earthquake. He became Premier in 1929 and in the face of bitter opposition and active plotting obtained Japan's adherence to the London naval limitation treaty. After the treaty was ratified a fanatic shot him. Four months later he resumed his duties, but had to resign after a month to undergo two operations, from the effects of which he never recovered. Known as "The Lion of Kuse," and later by superpatriots as ''The Warrior for Peace," he was a frugal, industrious, unpretentious man, the first commoner ever to become Premier of Japan...