Word: resignation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...convention of the American Federation of Labor in Houston provided an excellent stage for Mr. Green and colleagues, who made believe that "Dictator" Lewis had only to step out of C.I.O. in order to bring about peace. In Washington, Mr. Lewis gravely responded in kind: "I am willing to resign tomorrow or any day thereafter as chairman of the C.I.O. if Mr. Green will simultaneously resign as president of the A.F. of L. It then may be possible...to conclude a peace pact...
...Anglo-French demands. This may have been smart, too, for the news that Prague had apparently crumpled up in abject surrender caused Adolf Hitler to feel that he need not hurl the German Army at once into Sudetenland. Finally, it was smart for the Hodza Cabinet to resign as soon as it had "yielded unconditionally," thus clearing the way for a fresh Czecho-slovak Government with a clean slate...
...While they lunched, the French and Czechoslovak Governments urgently demanded that the Times editorial be repudiated, and every German paper jubilantly front-paged it as showing the "real mind" of Neville Chamberlain. Viscount Runciman, the British Mediator in Prague, began cabling London heavily in code, was reported threatening to resign. Finally, in the evening, at No. 10 Downing Street, the Prime Minister issued a communiqué: "The suggestion to the effect that the Czechoslovak Government might consider as an alternative to their present proposals (see p. 18) the secession of a fringe of alien population in their territory...
...which President Woodrow Wilson had flashed on April 21, 1914 from the fighting top of the U. S. S. Arkansas. This signal started the bombardment of Veracruz by ships of U. S. Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels and within a few months unacceptable President Huerta was forced to resign...
...Fritsch, who opposed sending German aid to Rightist Spain and more than once told Hitler that Germany is not yet sufficiently prepared to fight a war, was smeared by accusations of homosexuality. Whereas Cramm was sent to jail, Fritsch, of a size too big to jail, merely had to resign as head of the army (TIME...