Word: resignation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...refusal to retain for a third year his appointment as commander-in-chief of the Mediterranean, with headquarters at Malta. Said King Edward: "The Duke of Connaught must now consider his military career at an end, and if he does not intend returning to Malta he should resign his appointment at once. The King is much annoyed at his brother's persistent obstinancy...
...Mayor James Couzens of Detroit said to Alderman Lodge: "You ought to be mayor of this town." As President of the City Council, Alderman Lodge virtually was the mayor later, for four years. Not until friends came to him with 50,000 names on a petition did he resign as Council president and enter his name in the primary...
Supplementing Mr. J. E. La Dow's suggestion contained in his letter published in your issue No. 14 [TIME, Oct. 3], that Consul General Curtis be requested to resign in the absence of an explanation, satisfactory to Mr. La Dow, of why he permitted himself to be photographed in the vicinity of that dread beverage-beer, it would be splendid to appoint Mr. La Dow a censor of the habits and morals of Americans traveling abroad. In performing the pious functions of that position, meticulously as his intense but individual patriotism would dictate, he could incidentally be charged with...
...also whispered that Mr. Butler was going to pick the G. O. P. convention city; that Mr. Butler was perturbed over insurgency in Wisconsin; that Mr. Butler was about to put Republican pre-convention doings on an official party basis. No one suggested that Mr. Butler was going to resign, but the New York Times called him "our most perplexed statesman" and others sketched the enormity of the task with which he, or his successor, was faced...
...potatoes, geese, onions, eggs, tomatoes and cheeses from the steps of his city hall in an effort to break a commission merchants' trust. A street car strike ended his term prematurely, the carmen refusing to promise they would strike no more while he was mayor. He had threatened to resign if they failed to promise and he made the threat good...