Word: resignment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard Publicity Office yesterday afternoon denied with its usual alacrity the announcement appearing in a Boston morning newspaper to the effect that President Lowell would resign in 1932. It was said there that no one knew anything of it and that the supposed scoop on the part of the paper was a complete surprise...
That Alexander Legge, the Board's $12,000 per-year chairman and chief sponsor of its market program, would resign shortly after March 4 to return to his $100,000 per-year post as head of International Harvester Co. last week became an accepted fact. In his place was foreseen James Clifton Stone, vice chairman and tobacco's representative, who was expected to sheer the Board away from its present market program. Though Chairman Legge would not give a yes-or-no answer, he did say: "If a street car were to run over me tonight, the Board...
Scot MacDonald cleared his dry throat. "Really, I am rather surprised," he said, "but since no vital principle was involved [in the vote] the Government will proceed" (i. e. would not resign...
This appeared to satisfy Mr. Baldwin. He sat down. But another Conservative, Lord Eustace Percy, hotly denounced the Prime Minister's decision not to resign as "a breach of his personal honor!" Lord Eustace Percy was ignored, the Cabinet gained a precarious lease on life...
Just now the Prime Minister is proceeding on a rather tenuous theory: instead of feeling obliged to resign on any adverse vote (which is theoretically his parliamentary duty), he will cling to power until the House, egged on by the Leader of the Opposition, unmistakably demands his resignation...