Word: resignation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...official to attempt to leave China since the Japanese captured Nanking (TIME, Dec. 27). Boarding an airplane at Hankow, Son Sun gave out that he was flying to Hong Kong, would thence speed to Europe on a trip including Moscow. Meanwhile Communist leaders in China were loudly demanding the resignation of various prominent members of the Government which has had to flee Nanking and disperse itself in various Chinese cities (TIME, Nov. 29). The Reds had not yet asked that the Man of the Year resign, and presumably Son Sun wants to see Joseph Stalin about China's crucial...
...Tokyo Imperial University, issued the proclamation in Peking. Alternately stroking his neat goatee and puffing on a long cheroot, he declared "We are all old men, without ambition to hold office, but we feel the responsibility of seeing that China is restored to normalcy, after which we will resign." Up Peking staffs ran the five-barred (red, yellow, blue, white & black) flag of the original Chinese Republic, founded in 1912 at Peking after the overthrow of the Manchu Dynasty, the staffs on which from 1927 to 1937 flew the red, white & blue flag of Chiang Kai-shek's Nanking...
...what may turn out to be a balky Congress, was the National Press Club's annual dinner at which he was the guest of honor. Earlier in the week, the President was made an honorary member of the American Press Society (see p. 49), had been asked to resign by the Newspaper Guild, of which Mrs. Roosevelt is a member. High point of the Press Club dinner was the unveiling of a 28 by 12 ft. mural by PWArtist Andre Pizzini and Washington Cartoonist James T. Berryman (see cut, p. 15). The mural shows the President at the centre...
...several times before at tense moments (TIME, April 15, 1935, et seq.), announced he had "gone to bed with a chill." Viscount Halifax's departure for Berlin was speeded up by one day, and the New York Times learned that "humiliated" Mr. Eden had "tried to resign" and was "on the verge of resignation again." U. S. women's clubs, which have been cabling Ambassador Davis plea after plea for "Peace," were exhorted by a French observer at Brussels to save their cable money, persuade "American Womanhood" to switch from silk to cotton stockings, thus bankrupt silk-raising...
...high schools will be built factories and workshops for industrial training. 2) New technical schools and trade schools will be built. 3) The technical high-school course will be three instead of four years. 4) Trade schools will have a 12-month school year. 5) As they retire, resign or die, one-half of Chicago's 4,338 academic high-school teachers will be replaced by vocational teachers. 6) Only temporary (noncompetitive) appointments will be made where academic teachers are needed. Day after Superintendent Johnson's extraordinary announcement, the Board of Education began to carry out his unique...