Word: resignation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appointee assent to a qualifying clause of the following nature: "If at any time you should decide that you are no longer willing to give such course, or if in the opinion of a competent group of men you are giving such course unsatisfactorily, you would then agree to resign your position and would terminate your connection with the University." President Conant made it clear that this policy would apply only in special cases--such as might arise, for example, in connection with elementary language and composition courses...
...some thought irresponsible) leader of left-wing Radical Socialists. In 1928, as president of the Radical Socialist Party, backed by aging Senator Joseph Caillaux (one of the pre-War Radical Socialist leaders), Daladier broke up the Rightist Government of Raymond Poincairé by forcing its Radical Socialist ministers to resign. In 1929 he himself first tried to form a Government, but the old veteran statesman, Aristide Briand, prevented that. In 1933 for the first time he got the big job. He lasted nine months as Premier...
Angry and humiliated, Marshal Petain suddenly withdrew to Paris, threatened to resign. Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet finally persuaded him to return to Burgos, instructed him to get tough and beat down El Caudillo's demands...
When the result was announced before the Assembly, members remained seated on Left benches and shouted with gusto "Resign! Resign!" The Right answered with cries of "Go home to Moscow!" Finally strains of La Marseillaise broke out, and soon everyone was singing the anthem, enjoying a patriotic thrill in that unity against aggressors which President Lebrun represents...
Last week Sir Reginald resigned from his $20,000 job and had the last word in the argument. "His Excellency," he wrote, "takes this opportunity to state that both he and Lady Hildyard have enjoyed very much their sojourn in Bermuda and that he would not have asked to be allowed to resign had the difficulties of transport not been so great...