Word: resignation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Touch the problem of "aged and infirm judges who fail to ... retire or resign...
...flower ever bloomed so long or so repeatedly as the rumor that able Edward McGrady was about to resign as Assistant Secretary of Labor. Yet month after month-in the pale shadows cast by the matronly figure of Madam Secretary Perkins-he sweated over the job of settling major strikes. Last week the old rumor of his resignation blossomed once again, perhaps for the last time. For next day, after a conference with the President, Ed McGrady denied for the nth time that he had quit, denied in a way that amounted to a confirmation. Said he: "I have...
...unanimous will of the army and navy is that the eminent citizen, Colonel Franco, will continue President of the Government." Two days later, however, ''Eminent Citizen" Rafael Franco, who seized the Presidency also by a bloodless coup in 1936, found himself somewhat less eminent, was "asked" to resign, because he refused to form a Cabinet amenable to the military. Law Professor Félix Paiva, Dean and Rector of the University of Asunción, Vice President in 1920, was named Provisional President...
While hundreds of thousands of Orthodox adherents boasted that the Premier would have to resign in face of such widespread opposition, he remained obdurate, forbade press mention of the pulpit denunciation, refused to recognize that members of Parliament could be held responsible "by any court even ecclesiastical" for the votes they cast...
...public prints, pudgy William Green of the A. F. of L. and puffy Heywood Broun of the American Newspaper Guild last week started something that neither of them could finish before the week was out. Mr. Green suggested that the Guild would be better off if Mr. Broun would resign as president, since his activities had left it "torn to shreds, with its subordinate officers set out like ducks on a rock for the publishers to shoot...