Word: resignation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Evening after his conference adjourned, Major Berry took to the radio, offered to resign as Coordinator for Industrial Co-operation if large industry would thereby be persuaded to cooperate. "Of course," boomed he, "I fully understand that there are those who previously declined to join us because they disliked the President and also because they disliked the representation of organized Labor. . . . Now they don't dislike the President. . . . They want to cooperate. But in order to cooperate with the Federal Government the President must get himself a new co-ordinator...
...Equerry. In the House of Commons meanwhile the Leader of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition, Laborite Clement Attlee, is said to have given his word to Mr. Baldwin that if His Majesty's Government, in forcing their "ultimatum," as it is now called, upon the King, should resign, Mr. Attlee would refuse a command from the Sovereign that he become Prime Minister. This is telephoned to the snuggery. Over cocktails the strategy of the King and Mrs. Simpson is planned...
...from the "Popular Front" Cabinet headed by Socialist Leon Blum because of his continued refusal to munition the Reds of Spain. M. Blum, after receiving one of the smallest votes of confidence since his Cabinet was formed, raged at the French Reds who had let him down, "I would resign if conditions were not so grave that my resignation would be understood neither at home nor abroad...
...Edward continues to beat his head against customs, he will be unhappy and will wear off the crown the lustre which his three predecessors worked hard to add. The way out of the maze is for him to resign, handing over the sceptre to a regent in trust for the Princess Elizabeth, daughter of the Duke of York and heir apparent. This dignified gesture would hurt the crown much less than the current hush-hush hocus pocus, and would allow all parties to breathe easier...
...merging into strange bedfellowship, for example, Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn and the Associated Press. Adman Guimier is also the publisher of the violently anti-Blum daily Journal and as such is a newsman in his own right. Last week he broke the biggest French press story in years by resigning his Havas directorship and hurling the charge that Premier Blum had told Havas they could take their choice: either M. Guimier must resign from Havas, or the Havas advertising agency must be unmerged and separated from the Havas news service. How the Premier of the French Republic ever came...