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Word: resignations (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...symbols of unity.'' U. A. W. President Homer Martin, who heartily dislikes all four, had to avow the utmost esteem for them (and they for him). He also exuded esteem for his fellow officers, who half hoped that Mr. Martin would fulfill his recent threats to resign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: C.I.O. (CIO) | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

...Georgetown. Ky.* Kentucky Baptists soon discovered that Dr. Sherwood, although he claimed to be a Baptist and had been accepted as one by three Midwest Baptist churches, had been baptized (by immersion) in the Disciples of Christ Church.f Thereupon he was pelted with demands of "Be rebaptized or resign." President Sherwood considered himself thoroughly baptized, flatly refused to be reimmersed. At that the Kentucky State Baptist Association, which partly supports Georgetown, voted to impound its grants until the college or Dr. Sherwood gave in. The Association did not realize what stern stuff it was up against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Unbaptized Baptist | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

...Georgetown trustees stuck by him; so did the students and faculty. The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce, American Legion and Women's Club were for him to the last signature. Just as solidly against him, the Baptist Association as usual voted its annual request that Dr. Sherwood resign or be rebaptized, further declared that Georgetown had in effect "severed" its Baptist connections...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Unbaptized Baptist | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

While he had his lavish array of microphones, the chairman also denied reports that he was about to resign from FCC. He said he would return to the Power Commission only when his FCC job had been finished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Going To Town | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

Meanwhile, a defiant Moslem Congress with delegates from eight Moslem countries, exultant that Arab rebels now rule large areas of Palestine, met in Cairo, demanded that Britain repudiate the famed Balfour Declaration promising to establish "a national home for the Jewish people'' in Palestine, stop Jewish immigration, resign as mandatory Power-in plainer words, that Britain get out and leave the 400,000 Jews to the mercy of the 900,000 Arabs. Significant it was that the delegates journeyed to Alexandria to drink tea at Ras-El-Tin Palace with plump, ambitious, 18-year-old King Farouk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: Holy and Civil | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

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