Word: resignation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with COLLEGE HUMOR; we feel that you render us valuable service in opening up the college field to national advertisers; your pay checks for material used are a welcome addition to our income, and we appreciate the publicity which our magazine receives through COLLEGE HUMOR. We are ready to resign from the MidWest Association rather than support its action against COLLEGE HUMOR, which we consider absolutely unwarranted." There are over one hundred college comics in the country and with the exception of less than ten per cent, we are enjoying close contact with all of them. . . . J. M. LANSINGER...
Soon despatches called the situation "quiet," said that Dr. Wang, after nervously threatening to resign, was continuing negotiations with the Powers as Foreign Minister...
...contained dark dangers for Tammany Hall. The city's Republicans began talking about putting up a strong candidate to run against Mayor Walker next year. It became obvious that "for the good of the service," i.e. Mayor Walker's political welfare, Commissioner Warren would be obliged to resign...
...Cumberland Falls had another ramification that interested the Senate. Although locally called "the Niagara of the South," the falls are not Kentucky's or the South's greatest.*But they are famed scenically. And wealthy T. Coleman du Pont, whose health obliged him to resign last week as a Senator from Delaware, has long been seeking to buy the site and present it to his native Kentucky as a 2,200-acre state park. The Insull interests have, through a contract which was unpublished till last week, enlisted the aid of the present Republican administration in Kentucky...
...muzzle the buffoon. Instead, the President sent 50 riflemen to protect the Teatro Lirico from possible Crom mobs. To the Crom's charge of "persecution," square-jawed Señor Fortes Gil returned a flat denial. Thereupon the Crom Congress ordered all Crom members* throughout Mexico to resign from any State or Federal post which they may hold...