Word: resignation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Your recent testimony before the Senate Committee leaves me no alternative other than to ask you to make good the promise you voluntarily gave me some weeks ago, that you would resign at my request. That request I now make."? John D. Rockefeller Jr., controller of 15% of the stock of the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, in a letter to Board Chairman Stewart on April...
Sparse as is the disclosed information surrounding Mr. Wickizer's resolution, there is yet enough to make clear that he ignored his first duty, which was to resign. Thus he would have avoided the most ingenious and it would seem, most unpleasant--paradox of being ex officio in fact, though not in name. His resolution to be a tongue for every head of the student hydra is ambitious and pathetic...
True, foreign actors are almost always forbidden to act in England. True also that the 60 signers did not have enough influence to cause Mr. Arliss to resign from Equity. Yet it must have been painful for Mr. Arliss to realize that some at least of his ungrateful confreres would go far into the past and repay kindness with spite in the foolish effort to requite their grudge against his country...
...appointment of H. W. Jeffers 2G.B. as coach of the University lacrosse team, to take the place of Talbot Hunter, was announced last night by W. J. Bingham '16, director of athletics. Hunter, in the midst of his second season of coaching here, has been forced to resign on account of ill health, and his successor will assume control over the stickmen this week...
...political billingsgate, Champion Deneen warred upon Robert E. Crowe, the State's attorney of Leopold-Loeb fame and Mayor Thompson's entourage. Deneen and his candidate, Judge John A. Swanson, survived bombs exploded on their doorsteps and routed Crowe utterly. Mayor Thompson had vowed to resign if this happened but, of course, did not resign. The Small-Smith-Thompson-Crowe slogan, "America First," was as thoroughly exposed as the Ku Klux Klan. Libel suits and coroner's inquests were on Thompsonism's hands after the polls closed. But still the Thompson machine retained enough city patronage...