Word: resignation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Schneider, who previously, was asked to resign by the director has held his position throughout the trials that have featured the growth of the school in its formative stages in the past few years. Upon his return, it is quite possible that he will canvass the country in his search for new stock, with which he has been replenishing and enlarging the cattle culture of the decadent section of the country where he has been engaged with Albanian school...
Hastily he wrote to thin, nervous President Chiang Kai-Shek, craftily offering to leave China for a period of years-provided that all members of the "Soong Dynasty" resign from their governmental posts and also go into voluntary exile...
However, when he accepted his position at Syracuse it was with the understanding that swimming was to be made a major sport, and since no change has been made up to the present time, he feels at liberty to resign his post and take up his coaching elsewhere. When the Athletic Governing Board ignored raising the standard of swimming as a Hill sport at Tuesday's meeting, Ulen apparently felt that he was under no obligation whatsoever. As a result, Syracuse is losing a man who has been invaluable as a producer of swimmers and swimming teams, and the entire...
Punch represents thousands of solid respectable British families. It is read in every quarter of the globe. It was Punch that first mourned the death of Lincoln; that published the famed cartoon, "Dropping the Pilot," when the young German Kaiser forced Bismarck to resign; that opposed the Irish Home Rulers; that grew most exercised over Mayor Thompson's (Chicago) anti-British antics...
...inevitably recommend officially enforcement of a Reform which they effected unofficially. What they did mind was not having their hard-hitting prohibition enforcer, Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, placed in charge. Nor was Mrs. Willebrandt particularly pleased with what some called a "snub" and last week intimated that she would resign her posi-tion as Assistant Attorney General...