Word: quit
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Michael Abbatemarco, supposedly Uale's successor in Brooklyn, has been heard to scorn bodyguards with the fatalistic philosophy that if he was going to be killed he could not avoid it. Last week he quit a card game in Bath Beach, Brooklyn, at 4 A. M. He drove away in a glossy coupe. One half hour later the car was stopped, the motor running. Michael sprawled limply over the wheel. Three bullets were in his head, one in his chest. A shadowy figure walked off across a vacant lot, dropped an automatic pistol...
...other stockholders of the roads, particularly of the "Katy" began opposing the merger. The I. C. C. gave heed. Recently the Commission ordered Mr. Loree to quit the Katy chairmanship. Last week it commanded him to resign his directorship. Reasons: His dual directorship was not in the public or private interests; it tended to nullify competitive activities of the two roads...
Osborne Wood, son of the late Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, once made and lost a tidy fortune in Wall Street, has recently been working in an iron mine near Pecos, N. Mex. Last week he quit when a fellow workman was killed. Said he: "I have found all iron ore mines I have visited in New Mexico unsafe. There is a law regulating coal mine safety, but none relating to iron ore mines. I am going to do everything possible to get proper legislative measures in New Mexico to compel mine owners to safeguard employes...
...Jury where he confessed that it was all based on what "somebody" had told him. The commotion began when Dr. Straton tried in vain to get a pardon for a Baptist friend who had been convicted of boot-leggery. It ended when his Baptist flock asked the preacher to quit them...
...From that incident was born my desire to quit the ring-forever, the first opportunity that presented itself. I wanted to defend my title. I wanted to make enough money, but most of all I wanted to leave the game that had threatened my sanity before I met with an accident in a real fight with six-ounce gloves that would permanently hurt my brain...