Word: quit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...biggest jobs in U. S. education, the presidency of Brooklyn College-(salary: $15,000), New York City's Board of Higher Education elected Economics Professor Harry David Gideonse, renowned opponent of University of Chicago's President Robert Maynard Hutchins' education theories. Gideonse last year quit Chicago, has since taught at Columbia's Barnard College...
Lewis Williams Douglas will not be 45 until next month, but he has already gone far in three careers: business, politics and pedagogy. He quit teaching history at Amherst in 1920 to go back to his native Arizona and follow his grandfather and father into the mining business. But Lew Douglas felt he had a mission in life. He got into politics and served three terms in the House (where he made a reputation for understanding Government finance) before President Roosevelt made him Director of the Budget in 1933. Hard-headed Lewis Douglas washed his hands of the budget when...
...payroll of big-league clubs, some get commissions when players they recommend are signed up. Because their salaries are small (about one-sixth that of college football coaches) the practice of scouting is a welcome perquisite for baseball coaches, keeps many of them at a job hey otherwise might quit...
Arthur Pegler's son Westbrook could tell many another story of his old man, for the elder Pegler is a living example of the oldtime newspaperman. He went to work for the London Daily Telegraph before he was 20 and quit the New York Daily Mirror year before last at 73. In 1884 he landed in New York from a freighter and headed west. For three years he rode the range in the Dakotas and Iowa, then covered the trial of a brewer for the murder of a Methodist temperance leader who had put over local option in Sioux...
...Glenn L. Martin Co. was in Cleveland and its president had virtually quit flying. From that plant came the first Martin bomber, a huge, two-engined biplane. Built too late to get into the War, the first Martin bomber went to the Air Service. A great cranelike thing that drifted in stodgily to its landings, it was the standard bombardment plane of the service until the middle...