Word: resignation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senator Borah withheld comment until a decision should be announced. Meantime, Mrs. Willebrandt hinted that the prison-snooping system had originated with Attorney General Sargent. At the same time, with feminine inconsistency, she hinted that if she could not continue to snoop on her prison wardens she would resign...
...after the Cabinet had squeaked through by two votes, M. Poincaré reminded correspondents with characteristic bravado of his threat when he last took office (TIME, Aug. 2 , 1926), namely, that so long as the Chamber gave him a majority of even one vote he would not trouble to resign...
...refusal of the University authorities to affirm or deny the bulletin of a morning newspaper that Henry Lee Shattuck has been chosen Treasurer of Harvard. Until the appointment of Charles Francis Adams as Secretary of the Navy has been confirmed by Mr. Hoover, Mr. Adams will not resign his post as Treasurer. Until he has resigned, there can be no election of a successor, and no official statement on the question...
...created by the publication of the issue was one which the House Plan would remedy. "The action of the Lampoon editors shows that the men are in need of more mature minds in their midst, to prevent them from repeating things of that nature. The trustees who threatened to resign are in the right, for as overseers they can force the issue and make the Lampoon retract...
...became director of the American Birth Control League. There should be fewer babies, he thought, no more "indiscriminate growth of families." Here he first clashed with citizens of Michigan who thought such opinions unfitting to the head of a state institution. Cheerily, Dr. Little answered that he would rather resign than be muzzled. Unmuzzled, he continued his presidency...