Word: resignation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Director of Air Commerce Eugene Luther Vidal declared that reports that he is about to resign are "without foundation." United Air Lines' Hostess Helen Clark who normally flew in the wrecked plane but had stayed at home last week to nurse a sick father, resigned. Colonel Edgar Staley Gorrell, president of the Air Transport Association of America, declared: "U. S. airlines this year have transported a total of 1,140,000 passengers, of whom 45 lost their lives. . . . Translated into passenger miles, it is possible to fly in a scheduled transport plane at an average speed of 160 m.p.h...
...this was only half of Franklin Roosevelt's problem of jobs and men. Newshawks who harried Secretary Stephen Early on the subject of Cabinet changes got from him the answer that hardly any Cabinet members wanted to resign or would.* He was not speaking, however, of the bright young men who do the real work in many a department. Often has Franklin Roosevelt urged Business to hire more men. Little did he foresee that Business would hire not from Relief rolls but from the ablest young lawyers and executives on the Government's payrolls. For Business, which could...
...famed as a Red-baiter, Congressman Fish has stepped out since Nov. 3 as a would-be liberalizer of the GOP. Last week his target was National Chairman John D. M. Hamilton, who had called the Committee's first post election meeting to act on his offer to resign...
...Bucharest the immensely tall, Mongoloid statesman who in a struggle of many years weakened this conception and secured mutual diplomatic recognition of each other by the Soviet Union and the Rumanian Kingdom (TIME, June 18, 1934) was M. Nicholas Titulescu. His influence recently waned, he was forced to resign as Foreign Minister. An invalid on the French Riviera, he has claimed that secret agents of an unspecified power poisoned...
...Leon Fraser's Dutch successor as president of the Bank for International Settlements, Leonardus Jacobus Anthonius Trip, 60, last week informed the World Bank's directors he would resign at the end of the fiscal year. Nominated for his job was another Dutchman, J. W. A. Beyen, vice president...