Word: resignation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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YOUR STATEMENT IN TIME, FEB. 27 "DISGRUNTLED DING RESIGNED" SHOULD BE CORRECTED. NEITHER AM I DISGRUNTLED NOR DID I RESIGN FROM THE PRESIDENCY OF THE NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION. ... IN PASSING ALONG THE PRESIDENCY WE HOPED TO ESTABLISH A TWO-TERM PRESIDENT AND AVOID STIGMA OF A ONE-MAN SHOW...
...public opinion." Laborite Albert V. Alexander pointed out scornfully that the General saves income taxes by living abroad. Joining the attack was Colonel Sir Joseph Nail, Conservative. Defending Sir Reginald was Oliver Stanley, president of the Board of Trade. Sir Reginald flew to London, denied he intended to resign, with military gruffness termed the M.P.s' attack "a lot of idle chatter. More like village gossip. Pity they haven't anything better...
...allowed to do his best to beat his opponent. A coach is employed to teach a man how to wrestle, and when he deliberately orders a man to forget all he knows about wrestling and go on the mat and play tag, that coach should be asked to resign. Any coach realizes that great wrestlers cannot be developed by men who have been taught to stall. In the wrestling game, more than any other sport, perhaps, the greatest defense for a smart wrestler is aggressiveness. Olympic wrestlers are of this type, and many potential Olympic stars have been ruined...
...royal signature. The Premier went before the Parliament and, after a riotous session, finally came out with its reluctant approval. But when he reached his home the veterans were waiting for him. As he stepped out of his taxi, 200 of them pummeled him to the pavement, shouted "Resign! Resign...
Archie Graustein, however, was no paper man. And three years ago, after both International and the industry had begun to recover from their doleful declines in the early 1930s, he was invited to resign as president of International Paper, but to remain president of International Paper & Power (top holding company for all the subsidiaries). Mr. Graustein resigned from both in a huff and went back to lawyering. Richard J. Cullen, who had been in the paper business since he was 22, got his jobs...