Word: quit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Barton had been intimate with his wife, Gertrude Gussenhaven Wagner King. "Frances Jo Wagner" left. Later the man sued his wife for divorce, naming Bruce Barton as corespondent, sued Barton for alienation of affections. On advice of his company's lawyers Barton settled for $25,000 and got quit-claims from man & wife. Last November the woman sued for $250,000 more, charging that Barton had warned other advertising agencies against hiring her. Trying another way of making a living, she wrote a book in which a principal character is named "Roos Martin." Last week the Manhattan Grand Jury...
Died. Paul B. King, 38, Wartime aviation captain, son of Utah's Senator William Henry King; when he fell/jumped from the seventh floor of Washington's Blackstone Hotel. A nervous breakdown six months ago forced Captain King to quit test piloting at Langley Field, Va., enter a sanitarium which he left last fortnight...
Hanussen. The bullet-riddled body of Erik Jan Hanussen (born Steinschneider) was found in a wood near Bayreuth last week. Herr Hanussen was one of Europe's best known fortunetellers; he predicted the rise of Adolf Hitler several years ago. Three weeks ago he suddenly quit a vaudeville engagement in Berlin "because of an impending nervous breakdown...
...best-patrolled district in the country. Even Durham's wife, though she had cause to complain of his lack of ardor, respected and feared his virility. But Harry had such a winning way with him that his boss never fired him permanently, and once when Harry threatened to quit, surprised him by begging him to stay. Durham got so fond of Harry that when Dot, a "dudine" from the East, invaded the sanctity of the woods and took Harry's mind hopelessly off his work, Durham went crazy with jealousy. With a conveniently sprained ankle confining...
...proxy "battle." President Stephens, who knows that a drastic reorganization is the company's only salvation, promptly resigned. Most of the directors including General James Guthrie Harbord, chairman of Radio Corp., Matthew Scott Sloan, onetime president of New York Edison, Chairman Frank Bailey of Prudence Co., also quit in disgust. With Director Frederick J. Lisman's resignation went a strong demand for an investigation by an impartial stockholders' committee...