Word: resignation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...determination not to let the President rush in where Congress was anxious to tread, Franklin Roosevelt, who can be as bull-headed as anyone else, laid down his ultimatum, announced that if the Chairman would not agree to cooperate with his inquiry with-in 24 hours he must either resign or face suspension...
...usual for a Cabinet to "fall," overthrown by an adverse vote, but it can also "jump"-that is, simply resign. This rare but not unprecedented maneuver Premier Camille Chautemps executed in Paris last week, taking full advantage of his great personal triumph in having just put through both Chamber and Senate by huge majorities his Modern Labor Charter (TIME, March...
...This Chancellor Schuschnigg and Austrian President Wilhelm Miklas, who had just come from the pleasanter business of entertaining junketing Herbert Hoover, felt obliged to grant. Then again CRUNCH!-the Dictator sent by airplane his ultimatum that the last Chancellor of Austria (that is, of independent and sovereign Austria) must resign. This message was carried by Herr Josef Bürckel, Nazi leader in the Saar...
...them. But in it the majority directors accused the minority chairman of obstructive tactics in failing to abide by majority decisions, charged that Chairman Morgan had collaborated with private utilitymen to hamper the Board's program, implied that the sensible conclusion would be for Minority Member Morgan to resign...
...still an open question whether the University errs in the way it admits students, but, layman or educator, no one can doubt that the ingrown attitude towards teachers who resign or are dismissed sometimes makes Harvard appear in the wrong...