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Word: resignations (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...National Commander Paul Vories McNutt of the American Legion, which had protested President Hoover's suspension of cruiser construction, the President last week wrote: ". . . This is a forward step of the first importance. ... It is far better to at least try to establish [parity] by agreement before we resign ourselves to establish it by rival construction programs. ... I fear you have been misinformed as to the actual problems that lie before us, for they are far more intricate and difficult than can be solved by the simple formula which you suggest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Hoover Week: Aug. 12, 1929 | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

...Fuad in London last week. For four years His Majesty and his ministers on the Nile have been dictated to, nay openly bullied, by the British High Commissioner to Egypt, sleek, superior Baron George Ambrose Lloyd of Dolobran. Last week, in humiliating circumstances, the High Commissioner was forced to resign by his own Government, which at first withheld public explanation. In the House of Commons a teapot typhoon of invective rose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Dictator Ousted | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

...Senator Caraway of Arkansas: "Prohibition suffered the worst blow by the Wickersham statement that it has ever received. ... I expect Wickersham to resign soon. . . . Personally I hope he resigns. . . . The usefulness of the Commission is destroyed if he remains at its head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: More New Ground | 7/29/1929 | See Source »

...vexed, brooded long, and one day demanded certain facts from the company auditor. Like most auditors, this one was a reserved gentleman. His reticence, and other aspects of the matter, so enraged the noble Lord that he issued a pamphlet setting forth his grievances, announcing that he would shortly resign as trustee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Tycoon v. Tycoon | 7/29/1929 | See Source »

...that I should accede to the request of the Council of Advice and resign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Again, Paul Jones | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

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