Word: resignment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Henry Prather Fletcher informed President Hoover that he would resign as chairman of the Tariff Commission on Sept. 15 after one year's service. Mr. Fletcher simply does not like...
...England, most Zionists agree, has reneged in the last two years. The Simpson Commission issued a report implying that the Zionist land policy in Palestine was harmful to the Arabs. The Passfield White Paper (TIME, Nov. 3), stalling for the moment all Zionist progress, caused Dr. Weizmann to resign as president of the World Zionist Organization. The subsequent, interpretative MacDonald Letter attempted to modify the harshness of the White Paper, but failed to suit most Jews. The problem of dealing with England divided last fortnight's Congress into two factions, focussed Zion's attention once more upon...
Confidence. Final evidence of President Hindenburg's stabilizing power upon his country was seen when the Council of Elders of the Reichstag met on the eve of Chancellor Brüning's departure for Paris. Mere mention of the possibility that Old Paul might resign was sufficient to squelch all talk of convening the Reichstag, to force a vote of confidence in Old Paul's man Brüning...
Austrian politicians stick together in a crisis, but when crisis is past Austria's Cabinet is apt to fall. Last week Chancellor Otto Ender & Cabinet were forced to resign after averting an Austrian panic with an agreement whereby the State guarantees the liabilities of Austria's key bank, her great and almost bankrupt Kreditanstalt (TIME, June 8). Although Dr. Ender had deserved well of Austria, his friends & enemies preferred not to associate themselves with the guarantee his Cabinet had given, hence they permitted it to fall...
John Davison Rockefeller, astute nonogenarian with potent holdings in National City Bank, who reputedly advised the younger Stillman to resign the institution's presidency because of scandal ten years ago. Grandfather of the groom, he kept to his home in Pocantico Hills, N. Y., sent his blessing...