Word: resignedly
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...having three presidents in seven days. It was a serious matter to the Guatemalans; it became an embarrassing matter to the U. S. State Department. Fortnight ago General Lazaro Chacon, President of Guatemala since 1927, was suddenly stricken with what physicians described as a cerebral hemorrhage, forced to resign the presidency because of illness, He was succeeded by one Baudilio Palma, Second Designate under the Constitution,* and President Palma was found highly acceptable to the Guatemalan Congress. Apparently he was highly acceptable to the U. S. State Department as well. Within three days President Hoover sent a telegram to Senor...
...week's end U. S. correspondents suddenly learned that Censor Seeger was technically correct in denying that Hitlerites had forced the film's closing. None less than old President Paul von Hindenburg, a man who had spent a half century in the German Army, had threatened to resign "if this libel on the German soldier" was not withdrawn...
...went about his task of strengthening the company. Inventories were gradually written down to their value. Cash was conserved although it meant passing preferred dividends. No lies were told about the company, and stockholders did not like to hear the truth. Lately Mr. Pierce has been anxious to resign, but it has been difficult to find a man to take his place...
...English historians can recollect that cheeky remarks have been made in the House of Commons immemorially by the Irish Wintertons, the First Lord Winterton having been ennobled by Charles II after being forced to resign from the House of Commons for his "confounded, quarrel some impudence...
...eccentric old Dictator "could not conscientiously resign" until he had caused a new Parliament favorable to himself to be elected (TIME, Nov. 24) by the soldierly expedient of locking up Opposition candidates without bothering to trump up charges against them...