Word: quit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...QUIT! On June 33, I shall quit publishing Little Blue Books! Order till then...
...rumor ran a bit about Wall St., and then a great deal more rapidly about the press that Jesse L. Livermore, famed stock operator, had quit the market for good. It said that he, having made millions and lost them several times, was now at one of the peaks of his success (estimated at $20,000,000) and that he intended to get out. It was said that he had had all the tickers removed from his office, even that he had not traded in a share of stock for as much as a year...
...Business and the Navy should not be mixed; as a business proposition, there is no more reason for subsidizing shipping than farming all the old arguments. If U. S. firms cannot compete with foreign, they had better quit...
...Wottadamshame--Quit yer blubberin' there O'Shame! Ye'll disgrace me Court, I'tell ye. Fwhy can't ye set down 'n enjoy the pitchers in the Gazette like a dacent, self-respectin' policeman...
California seems to be with the Dollars, convinced of the world-conquering efficiency of the Dollar system. Presumably, they have with them the Administration, desirous to be quit of the embarrassing ship business. And, for mascot, they have the old man, his beard, his sign...