Word: quit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: TIME Dec. 5, regarding Col. E. A. Deeds and National Cash Register: "It was homecoming for Col. Deeds, for he got his start as a young engineer in N. C. R. . . ." "Farm-born Col. Deeds quit N. C. R. with his good friend Charles Franklin Kettering to develop Delco. . . ." No mention is made (as has been made in most similar TIME accounts) of Deeds's formal education. The impression is strong that he grew up in industry untutored. Not so! Denison '97, Deeds has so long been known for his Denison deeds that in Ohio...
...James Walcott Wadsworth Jr. of New York.* Twelve years (1915-27) in the Senate, his seat in which he lost because he would not weasel on Prohibition, proved his worth as a statesman. "I'm not out of politics by a long sight," declared Mr. Wadsworth when he quit the Senate. Tried & true blood rather than young new blood (he is 55), Mr. Wadsworth is counted upon by G. O. Partisans not only to make a conspicuous House record for himself, despite the hobbling effects of seniority rules, but also to lead the rehabilitation of their party...
...suite of Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald in Geneva's swank Hotel Beau Rivage. Cheerful Host MacDonald and guests representing the U. S., France, Germany and Italy, had something to celebrate. They had reached a formula for bringing Germany back into the Disarmament Conference, which the Fatherland quit last September, and they had signed a joint three-point declaration which all agreed was "extremely important...
...abandon himself to something. As he passed down the steps onto Plympton Street he turned to look again upon the field of his victory. The pale light of early morning was just starting to spread the lemon fingers of disillusion over the field he had just quit. Several of his friends who "couldn't take it" were distributed severally in little heaps about the building, mute testimony to spirits that had passed away...
Farm-born Colonel Deeds quit N. C. R. with his good friend Charles Franklin Kettering to develop the Delco ignition system for automobiles. In 1916 they sold out to General Motors for several millions and Mr. Kettering followed to become a pillar of G. M. Colonel Deeds became interested in aviation during the War. took charge of Government airplane production. He is largely credited with perfecting the Liberty motor. After the War he followed both electric machinery and aviation into Niles-Bement-Pond and Pratt & Whitney. As a director of National City Bank he stepped into the presidency of National...