Word: resignation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quavering cabinet to yield, to vanish. Very different was a march upon Bucharest last week, staged by 60,000 peaceful peasants. Their revered leader, Dr. Juliu Maniu, threatened no more than that the peasants would wait quietly in the streets for four days, meanwhile petitioning Premier Vintila Bratiano to resign...
Strangely enough, although M. Bratiano heads an intensely militant oligarchy of land owners and industrialists-although he dominates the police and the army-there was a possibility that he might resign, or at least so reorganize his cabinet as to give the peasants a voice in the government, which they have not had for decades...
...letter printed in your issue of Feb. 27, from William J. Turner of Wilkinsburg, Pa., concerning the Penn State "Froth" parody of TIME, contained several statements decidedly erroneous. To quote from his letter: "The editor was asked to resign from the local literary fraternity, the subject of the front cover caricature threatened libel suits...
...Clair O'Malley, Counsellor of the Foreign Office was "permitted to resign"; 2) Lieutenant Commander H. F. B. Maxe of the Foreign Office Staff was "severely reprimanded" and deprived of three years seniority; Gerald H. Villiers, lesser official, was "censured...
...Froth Staff. It appears that many of these aversions happened to be faculty men-or higher. Not obscene, it was not forbidden the mails, nor was the sale of it in the college prohibited. But-and I have this from a student-the editor was asked to resign from the local literary fraternity, the object of the front-piece caricature threatened libel suits, the wives of the offended faculty threw fits, the faculty itself debated for four hours the question: Resolved, that the Froth be indefinitely suspended and that various punishments be meted out to its officers. The question...