Word: resignment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ambitions Excited. Had President Osborn desired, he might have shunted this discussion aside and set his colleagues' ambitions galloping. Waiting in Manhattan was his veiled announcement that on Jan. i, 1933 he would resign the presidency of the American Museum of Natural History. He will have been president 25 years, an official 42. The way he told of his retiring was to conclude his annual report with the hope that by that date the third generation of museum trustees, whose remaining lifetime "may be estimated at 20 years . . . will be able to step into the boots of the president...
Three of the most prominent Cabinet members at once tried to resign, were curtly told that the King did not accept their resignations. "Most disastrous!" groaned Count de Romanones, "richest Spaniard," entrapped as Minister of State by the King's rebuff. (Despite the fact that Count de Romanones is supposed to own the manorial town of Guadalajara outright, he had been unable to keep its citizens from electing Republicans...
...will, I am sure, facilitate your arrangements if I resign my position as chairman of the Conservative finance committee, as the post should certainly be filled by whoever is conducting the opposition to the budget or by someone working under his immediate direction. Pray take this letter, therefore, as terminating my tenure...
...Chapelizod, outside Dublin, complications of jaundice, dropsy and heart disease brought Death last week to a bearded, brilliant gentleman with a testy tongue, Timothy Michael Healy, first Governor General of the Irish Free State, in his 76th year. Three years ago failing health made him resign the Governor-Generalship. Fortnight ago his condition became critical, relatives were summoned. Tim Healy (nobody ever called him anything else) died in the night...
...quietly. Yet last week war clouds hung over Calumet. When shareholders gather by proxy in Warren, Ariz, on April 20, they will cast ballots on what amounts to a vote of confidence in the management. Should his proxies be outnumbered, President Campbell has made it clear that he will resign...