Word: resignation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rumor, spread in last night's Boston press that Mal Stevens, Yale football coach, intended to resign his post to Adam Walsh at the end of the season, regardless of what luck the Bulldogs had, was emphatically denied last night by the Yale News...
...southern rebels of Kwangsi, who have defied the authority of the Nationalist Government since last May. 2) Encouraged by thoughts of the well-armed "ironsides" division, six other Nationalist generals joined them. 3) General Ho Ying-chäing, one of President Chiang's most valued assistants, suddenly resigned from six important government positions in the Nationalist Government "to attend the funeral of his father." Foreign Minister Wang's gloom was slightly alleviated late in the week when loyal Nationalist troops succeeded in checking the advance of Chang Fa-k'uei, and the " General Ho announced that...
...National Committee, he sent his trusted secretary George Akerson to fill his appointment with the press. This Official Spokesman, strikingly Hooveresque in physical appearance, once a news-gatherer himself (Minneapolis Tribune), had nothing of world import to impart. He said that if Chief Justice William Howard Taft intended to resign, the President had not been so informed; and that if Governor Fred Warren Green of Michigan* (who had arrived that morning to spend a few days at the White House) were going to become Secretary of Labor when James John Davis retires on March 4, it was indeed news...
...were foolish enough to think of gasoline got what they deserved. They had faith in the ex-superintendent of the Detroit Edison Company, who promised to build ten cars for $10,000. He spent $86,000 of their money and they thought they were lucky to get him to resign. The urchins were right when they chased the gas buggies through the streets and shouted, "Hire a horse...
...Everything went perfectly," beamed Surgeon Marion when the exploring was over. As the anesthetic wore off and M. Poincarč regained consciousness he appeared to think first and only of work. Certain reports had had to be left unfinished when illness obliged him to resign the Prime Ministry. As soon as ever he could Le Lion called for documents, ink and paper, set about completing the reports in his clear, precise, almost microscopic hand. So many huge baskets and bouquets arrived that when the invalid's room was full Mme. Poincare ordered the surplus sent, not without vanity, to deck...