Word: resignation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...discussed on the floor. By last week, at least nine Senators who had voted for Hugo Black had hastily announced that they would not have done so if they had been assured that he was a member of the Klan. Senators Walsh and Copeland suggested that Mr. Black resign. Montana's Burton K. Wheeler demanded that the President name an impartial board to investigate the charges...
There was hardly a bigger story in Europe last week than this: Dr. Horace Greeley Hjalmar Schacht had laid his resignation before Herr Adolf Hitler and the Economics Ministry he wanted to resign had been physically taken over by Colonel General Hermann Wilhelm Gőring...
...Coast editor, agreeing with Senator Carter Glass, does not see how the Alabama Senator can be kept off the bench now if he refuses to resign. "Of course, there is always the constitutional question--that is whether or not, Black's voting for the full-salary pension, renders him unqualified, constitutionally, for the post. But that's up to the Court itself to decide...
...whereupon he set out to collect all the native representations of white men he could find. By 1933 he was ready to put his notes together. In that year, however, Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany and preoccupation with other cultures than the "Aryan" became dangerous. Forced to resign, Professor Lips was finally driven to Paris, whence Columbia University invited him to finish his work in New York...
...Diet in 1907. With the World War, Masaryk, sensing the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, won the Allied powers to the cause of a national Czechoslovakia. First gesture of grateful Czechs was to elect him President, which post he held until failing health forced him to resign in 1935; last gesture of grateful Czechs was to award him seven years ago a private fortune of $600,000, which he promptly gave to a fund for cancer study...