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William Jennings Bryan, first Wilson Secretary of State: His ban on foreign loans might have kept the U. S. out of war. When his neutrality views were over ruled by his President and Cabinet colleagues, he quit...
...Death took William Woodin, his first Secretary of the Treasury. Young James Paul Warburg, who worked hard for the success of the London Economic Conference of 1933, left the New Deal as its fiscal tendencies became apparent. Harvard's Oliver Mitchell Wentworth Sprague, monetary adviser to the Treasury, quit when dollar tinkering began. Special Assistant Earle Bailie had to retire because the Senate would not confirm a Wall Street man. Undersecretary of the Treasury Dean Gooderham Acheson, differing with the President on financial policies, departed without even a perfunctory expression of Presidential regret. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Thomas...
...willing to do it so long, in spite of his naturally conservative leanings, was explained by the fact that he looked upon himself not as a policy maker but as an expert who merely put his skill at the service of his country. Last week, however, he quit, simply saying in his letter to the President: "Circumstances have now arisen which make it advisable for me to tender you my resignation." An open secret in Washington was the fact that the "circumstances" were, in substance, the 1936 political campaign. Expert or no expert, he did not wish to stand...
...Aero Squadron. In the War he fought on all five fronts, became Chief of Staff of the A. E. F. air service, one of the youngest men in U. S. Army history to win a colonelcy. Awarded many a medal, he served at the Peace Conference, quit the Army in 1920 to work for Nordyke & Marmon Co. Joining Stutz Motor Car Co. in 1925, he became president in 1929, resigned last August...
...When her fisherman leaves her to go on the bum, she steals a roll of bills for him from Nick. Sentenced for this, she gets out of prison through a drainpipe, is reunited with her tuna fisherman, only to give herself up to the law when he promises to quit his cocky ways, work again...