Word: resignment
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden, as a confirmed Free Trader, was about to resign...
...Vossische Zeituag announced that General Wilhelm Heye of the Reichswehr (standing army) would resign his office after the election. Named as his possible successor was General Kurt von Hammerstein, who was seized as a Republican sympathizer in 1920 on the eve of the Kapp putsch (revolution). General Hans von Seeckt, who organized the Reichswehr so efficiently that Allied influence urged his retirement, made his political debut by accepting the new Conservative People's Party nomination for the Reichstag in the constituency of Magdeburg-Anhalt...
Before anyone could shoot him, federal cavalry dashed to the rescue. Anniversary of this great occasion has become a national holiday known as Character Day. Scarcely anyone has ever dared ask President Leguia to resign since...
...last week's meeting of the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee, young guardsmen led by Michigan's Senator Yandenberg turned openly against Senator Moses as chairman. They asked him to resign. He refused. They complained that his campaign usefulness as a regular Republican had been ruined because: 1) he had characterized Western G. O. P. Senators as "sons of the wild jackass"; 2) in opposing the London Naval Treaty he had attacked President Hoover; 3) he had tried to make Otto Hermann Kahn the committee treasurer in defiance of other members; 4) he had supported Chairman Huston...
...technical defeat by a Prussian Socialist, President von Hindenburg was in ripe mood for drastic action when Chancellor Heinrich Briining of all Germany reported that in the Reich- stag the national Socialist party was continuing to hamstring his fiscal program. Already two luckless Finance Ministers had been forced to resign. The Socialists were blocking the Budget. What should two old soldiers do about these pesky Socialists?for Herr Briining too is an old soldier (Iron Cross...