Word: quit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Formosa, the Pescadores Islands, and Southern Manchuria including Port Arthur. When Germany, France and Russia forced Japan to disgorge all her spoils except Formosa and the Pescadores, the young Samurai's blood boiled with rage and shame. He had been apprenticed to a brewer of Shoyu (soy sauce), quit brewing to enter the Military Academy (where tuition was free), zealously prepared for what all Japan knew was coming, the Russo-Japanese War. This conflict Imperial Russia had made inevitable by "leasing" from Imperial China the Southern Manchurian peninsula which Japan's "Son of Heaven" had been forced...
Reds by the Chicago White Sox, which he managed, he quit baseball until 1926, when he went to work as coach of Connie Mack's world champion Philadelphia Athletics...
Passing its hurried 30 years of life, the Automotive Industry has been the most aggressive revolutionist in a world of increasing Industrial Revolution. So fast has been its pace that 100 automobile companies have started and quit. But contrary to glib predictions, there have been few casualties since 1929. The cash reserves of good years have been a bulwark against catastrophe...
...present staff was at the birth. He is Associate Editor Edward Sandford Martin, who celebrated his 77th birthday two days before the magazine's Golden Jubilee. E. S. Martin was Life's first editor, and a part owner but was stricken with malaria and had to quit after the first six months. Three or four years later he resumed work as editorial writer, wrote regularly for the next 40 years until Editor Norman Hume Anthony, now of Ballyhoo, took the editorship of Life in 1929 for a brief tenure. Lloyd George had called E. S. Martin "the greatest...
...call their Stock Exchange loans, Chase expanded its loans $373,000,000. It was National City Bank's Charles Edwin Mitchell, a rampant, bull, who became the popular scapegoat of the Crash with his insistence that conditions were fundamentally sound. Rumors that Banker Mitchell was about to quit National City persisted for a year afterward, then faded out. Currently he is in the ascendant, dictating economy to Tammany Hall. Banker Wiggin's troubles came...