Word: resignment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This could best be done by forcing the successful revolutionist, General Manuel Orellana, to resign as president of Guatemala. The joke of the whole business was of course not that Revolutionist Orellana had seized the presidency but that he had seized it from one Baudilio Palma who obtained it the week before from original President Lazaro Chacon. The joke which Washington wanted uncracked was that Washington had recognized the second of Guatemala's three successive presidents...
...that fence all right, but when she discovered Karl Arthur's platonic friendship with the organist's wife, shy Thea, Anna's native wit was not much help. Thea kept things on a spiritual plane, which baffled Anna considerably. Then Karl Arthur heard a call to resign his ministry and go to preach in the byways. Thea left her husband and went with him. Years later it was wise Charlotte Löwensköld who rescued Karl Arthur from the woman who was dragging him down, persuaded him to go to Africa as a missionary, eventually...
...having three presidents in seven days. It was a serious matter to the Guatemalans; it became an embarrassing matter to the U. S. State Department. Fortnight ago General Lazaro Chacon, President of Guatemala since 1927, was suddenly stricken with what physicians described as a cerebral hemorrhage, forced to resign the presidency because of illness, He was succeeded by one Baudilio Palma, Second Designate under the Constitution,* and President Palma was found highly acceptable to the Guatemalan Congress. Apparently he was highly acceptable to the U. S. State Department as well. Within three days President Hoover sent a telegram to Senor...
...week's end U. S. correspondents suddenly learned that Censor Seeger was technically correct in denying that Hitlerites had forced the film's closing. None less than old President Paul von Hindenburg, a man who had spent a half century in the German Army, had threatened to resign "if this libel on the German soldier" was not withdrawn...
...went about his task of strengthening the company. Inventories were gradually written down to their value. Cash was conserved although it meant passing preferred dividends. No lies were told about the company, and stockholders did not like to hear the truth. Lately Mr. Pierce has been anxious to resign, but it has been difficult to find a man to take his place...