Word: resignment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...official explanation, sufficiently remarkable, of why Col. Walery Slawek resigned last week was that his Finance Minister, Col. Ignace Matuszewski, "wished to resign." In the Slawek Cabinet Col. Prystor was Minister of Industry & Commerce, a subject with which he was notoriously unacquainted. Upon stepping to Poland's helm last week Premier Prystor reappointed Joseph Pilsudski Minister of War, appointed Jan Pilsudski (brother) Minister of Finance. The former Minister of Finance, Col. Matuszewski who so conveniently "wanted to resign," will be appointed by Col. Prystor as Polish Minister to the Court of St. James's, according to Warsaw gossip...
...relief work through the Civil War and the Franco-Prussian War. For 23 years she was the energetic, arbitrary ruler of the American Red Cross. In 1904 a minority of its members attacked her dictatorship, forced an investigation of her poor business management, caused her, amid bitter recriminations, to resign. Last week President Hoover, his extremely distant Swiss relative, President Max Huber of the International Red Cross, Chief Justice Hughes and many another assembled at the New Willard Hotel for a Red Cross "golden jubilee" dinner. Declared President Hoover: "The Red Cross is one of the most beautiful flowers...
Rare indeed is the student strike which accomplishes thus easily its aim. The W. & J. students had protested against Dr. Baker's domineering methods, his "dress rules," his lack of sympathy with their athletic program. His capitulation last week was complete. Though ill health influenced his decision to resign, he said: "So far as the student body is concerned, I have tried to win their friendship but have been unsuccessful. Sometimes I think the fault is mine. . . . As a whole they are serious and well-behaved. . . . The faculty is an able group...
...that is left to us is to hold on, struggle on and not resign in view of the sad future...
...George Taylor Bishop, a Clevelander who had done well in utilities. Mr. Eaton was given a desk in the Bishop office. From that desk he rose to the great financial heights which made him one of the most powerful industrialists in the U. S. When he had to resign as chairman of Continental Shares, Inc. (TIME, May 4), his nephew, W. Russell Burwell, resigned as president. The new president is George Taylor Bishop, long a tutor, always a friend of Mr. Eaton...