Word: resignation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Round 2. Mr. Rockefeller Jr., a minority stockholder in Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, examined Col. Stewart's testimony, talked with him, asked him to resign as chairman of the board. According to Mr. Rockefeller Jr., Col. Stewart promised to comply with this request. Nine months passed and Col. Stewart did not resign, in fact refused to resign. Mr. Rockefeller Jr. sailed for Egypt last fortnight, but left behind him a letter to stockholders, expressing loss of confidence in Col. Stewart and asking for proxies to oust him. In Chicago, Col. Stewart replied: "If the Rockefellers want to fight...
...double-barreled question, "Is it true that you will resign as Agent General and enter the House of Morgan?" unembarrassed Mr. Gilbert replied easily, "I hadn't heard about that...
Point and significance was lent to Parliamentary gossip about Le Dauphin, last week, by the fact that M. Poincaré again let it be known, during the holidays, that he plans to resign as soon as he is satisfied that his Cabinet?in which he now holds no active portfolio?can carry on under another leader. After two and a half years of incessant and supremely successful work in stabilizing the franc (TIME, Aug. 2, 1926 et seq.), the Prime Minister and former President of France is anxious for release from arduous and poorly paying public duties...
Like many another king, Alexander of Jugoslavia was sick last week with influenza when Monsignor Anton Koroshetz, the Prime Minister, called to say that he no longer had a majority in Parliament and must resign. His Majesty replied between coughs and snuffles that Monsignor Koroshetz would have to wait...
...commissioners arrived one by one speculation was furious. Aunt Evangeline and Niece Catherine were both named as candidates for Brother Bramwell's sabre. But it was reported that the sick man saw the writing on the wall and would resign, at the same time tossing under the ingle-log the fateful envelope with his name of names. It was acknowledged that the Army had reached the gravest crisis of its history, with reorganization ... or, at worst, disorganization ... to result...