Word: quit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brewery Workers Union, a dormant allied organization which woke up when beer came back, was ready to quit the Federation when it found that its teamsters, engineers and firemen were about to be handed over to the jurisdiction of A. F. of L. teamsters', engineers' and firemen's unions. The Amalgamated Clothing Workers, a strong independent organization with 130,000 members, was ready to add its numbers to the A. F. of L. But there was a hitch. A. F. of L.'s United Garment Workers demanded that Amalgamated unionists stitch no men's clothes...
Japanese affectionately call 78-year-old Finance Minister Korekiyo Takahashi "Daruma" after the pot-bellied Buddhist sage, symbol of good luck. Just now he is carrying on with the most colossal and appallingly unbalanced budget in Japanese history. Since Japan quit the gold standard (TIME, Dec. 21, 1931) her yen has fallen to 36% of its par gold value but there has been no monetary inflation, no starting of the Japanese Treasury's printing presses. Last week Mr. Takahashi, who in his youth indentured himself to an Oakland, Calif, farmer to work for three years for a total wage...
...first practice session of candidates for Harvard's freshman crew, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. jumped out of the shell, exclaimed: "I'll punch you in the nose. And I really mean it." In the boathouse he met a committee of two photographers, told them: "I quit football because I didn't want to be hounded by photographers and I thought you'd leave me alone here. My father is in politics, but I'm not. He has nothing to do with this. I don't want my picture taken because by next week...
...friends in 1902 - a longshot bet on a little $3,000,000 concern which had grown out of a wildcat gusher in the Spindletop pool. Ralph Holmes went to Texaco at its founding. Grandson of an oilman, he was raised in Olean, N. Y. near the Pennsylvania oil fields, quit school to go into refining. For Texaco he helped develop the famed Holmes-Manley gasoline cracking process, helped push its distribution into 51 foreign lands and into all 48 States (more than any U. S. oil company). Now 59, short, stocky, bulb-nosed Ralph Holmes is known chiefly...
Dollars sank last week to the lowest level since the U. S. quit the gold standard -65?. Because President Roosevelt had not yet seen fit to devalue the dollar, the price is determined by supply & demand in international exchange. And because the U. S. has a 'favorable trade balance, demand is normally greater than supply. Whence the dollar flood that has eaten away 35? of every 100? in each U. S. dollar since last April? Continental money-changers, canniest of whom are reputed to be "the Greeks," delight in selling dollars short, but bankers know that that accounted...