Word: quit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under the League Covenant neither Japan nor China is obliged to announce acceptance or rejection of the Report until 90 days after its adoption by the Assembly. Japan would remain a League member for two years after serving notice of intention to quit the League. Moreover the U. S. and Soviet Russia are to be asked under a paragraph of the Report (if adopted) to "associate themselves with the views expressed in the report . . . and concert their action and their attitude with the members of the League...
...Pianist Paderewski, 72. and dictator Pilsudski, 65, but are they old enough to tolerate each other? That was Poland's crucial question last week. It was the Army which favored M. Paderewski to quit Poland's Premiership in 1919 after a tenure of only ten months, and Marshal Pilsudski is the Army's idol...
Though Kuhn, Loeb & Co. have been its bankers, Pennsylvania has never been a banker's road. It is a Pennsylvania institution, socially, financially, politically. President Atterbury runs the road. He has been a Pennsy man since he left college in 1886. Son of a lawyer who quit a Detroit practice to become a Presbyterian preacher and who wanted his son to enter the ministry. President Atterbury started in the Pennsylvania's great Altoona shops. In 1903 President Cassatt jumped him to general manager of the eastern region, a key post. Thereafter his rise, like all railroadmen...
...capital lately went into Granville Bros, (new name: Granville Aircraft Corp.). Alfred D. Chandler, longtime backer of Giuseppe Bellanca who quit him following a quarrel last year, turned to Granville. With Mr. Chandler went former Bellanca Vice President William B. Hurlburt...
...second day, after passing Nigeria, the robot pilot quit, leaving the human pilots to guess their way through rain squalls and the second night...