Word: resignment
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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General Fragoso and his brother officers were admitted to an anteroom where he paced up & down. In the adjoining library frantic ministers begged the "60-year-old President to resign. Turning his back on them he walked into his office, slammed the door. Just then General Fragoso opened the library door, stuck his head in. "I do not care to invade another's home," he apologized, "but where is the President...
...When his great & good friend President Hoover made him Secretary of the Interior, Dr. Wilbur, as president of Stanford University, was given a year's leave of absence by his trustees. That leave expired Aug. 31. Last week the Stanford Daily, undergraduate publication, editorially demanded that Dr. Wilbur resign either his Cabinet position or his college presidency...
Lack of a quorum was advanced as the only reason why the Stanford trustees had not already approved Dr. Wilbur's application for another year's leave of absence. The Secretary was described as "particularly loth" to resign from the Cabinet until the disposition of charges against him and his department's administration of Colorado shale oil lands by Field Chief Ralph S. Kelley (TIME, Oct.13...
...hundreds, then thousands, then tens of thousands from all over the countryside on a weird, terrifying, peaceful march to Bucharest (TIME, Mar. 26, 1928). Squatting and sleeping 60,000 strong in the streets of the Capital, the peasants demanded that the then No. 1 Oligarch, Prime Minister Vintila Bratianu, resign...
...March Vintila did not resign. The multitude of peasants trudged wearily home to plant and plow. But what they had done gave Dr. Maniu the political potency to upset the Bratianu Cabinet in November, seize the Prime Ministry for himself (TIME, Nov. 12 & 19, 1928). Abruptly last week he resigned, would say only, "My reason is the state of my health. I shall devote myself to travel and recreation...