Word: resignation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Would it not be a gracious thing for the President to do-a beautiful custom to originate-that the President resign a few weeks or months before the end of his term of office (say, on Christmas or New Year's day or even on Thanksgiving) so as to permit the Vice President to become President of the United States for the interim until January 20-when the newly-elected President would take office under Amendment XX to the Constitution...
...Manchuria-much to the chagrin of the U. S. Secretary of State, Henry L. Stimson. Sir Samuel's big try at appeasement came in 1935, when with French Premier Pierre Laval, he arranged a deal to give Benito Mussolini a big chunk of Ethiopia. He had to resign because of public indignation, but soon found another Cabinet job. That the Prime Minister's indignation at Adolf Hitler may be only temporary was hinted at last week when Mr. Chamberlain took pains to assure Germany that Britain would not interfere with her "reasonable efforts . . . to expand her export trade...
While Hitler was marching east last week (see p. 16), Central European Correspondent G. E. R. Gedye published in World's Press News (British equivalent of Editor & Publisher) a blistering attack on the English press. After telling how he had to resign from the London Telegraph for criticizing British foreign policy in his book, Betrayal in Central Europe, Correspondent G. E. R. Gedye published in evidence of censorship: "Today one great Conservative newspaper is actually binding its foreign correspondents to write nothing whatever outside its columns without permission." Everybody knew he meant the London Times...
Although not officially announced by either the English Department or the University reliable sources indicate that Fred Norris Robinson '91, Gurney Professor of English Literature, will resign before the end of the academic year...
...issue. It was suspected that King Leopold had backed the appointment. After that Belgian statesmen struggled to form Cabinets, failed in dizzy succession. Soon the suspicion was rife that the King had dictatorial ambitions. Last week a shortlived Cabinet-that of Walloon Premier Hubert Pierlot-was again about to resign when His Majesty stepped in. He refused to accept the resignations, ordered new elections on April 2 and then sat down and wrote his ministers an extraordinary letter in which he pleaded not guilty of either dictatorial ambitions or of appointing Dr. Martens. Without mincing words, the King fitted...