Word: quit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Conservatives and Liberals. Roosevelt apologists tried to explain that what he meant was that the conservative majority was Republican, thus "controlling" the court's decisions. Partisan politics has often washed the sacred doorstep of the Supreme Court, if it did not leak inside. Charles Evans Hughes in 1916 quit the august bench to run for President as a Republican. In 1930 President Hoover, anxious to repay his political debt to the South for its vote in 1928, appointed John Johnston Parker, a North Carolina Republican, to the Supreme Court only to have the Senate reject him (TIME...
That was the obituary that Frank Ward O'Malley wrote for himself long after he became "O'Malley of the Sun," one of Manhattan's truly famed newspaper reporters, old style. He quit the newspaper business in 1919, wrote undistinguished magazine articles, moved to Europe, faded from the limelight. Yet when he died last week at 56 in France, "O'Malley of the Sun" was still news all over the country. Editorials mourned the passing of a Great Reporter. Colyumist F. P. Adams called him "the perfect and utter newspaperman...
...eight years Professor of English Literature at Notre Dame University, gained fame as a scientist and oculist. Also he was a Latin scholar, conducted voluminous correspondence with Popes Leo XIII and Benedict XV. Brother William was a naval captain. Frank began work as a smalltown newspaper cartoonist in Pennsylvania, quit when a mine foreman whom he had caricatured fell down a shaft and was killed...
When Izzy in 1927 was "offered" a transfer to Chicago, he quit. (He did not ''want to get mixed up with Capone," said he wanted to die in New York.) He likes Manhattan, wants to go on living where he has always lived, on the Lower East Side. Estimating Manhattan's speakeasies at 100,000 and their employes at half a million, Izzy thinks Prohibition is here to stay-at least for a long time. Now that he is no longer a sleuth, he is making more money, he says, and getting more sleep...
...Beautiful Damaris Gordon complicated his situation by appearing to prefer his rival, Captain Holcombe. When his editor cut his Race Week story to tatters, with Damaris avoiding him and Holcombe forcing him into a duel. Peter felt his story was over. But the end was not yet: he quit his job, survived the duel, married Damaris. Action cured him of doubt: by the time Beauregard's guns had opened on Fort Sumter Peter was in uniform too. After two sweet months with Damaris he rode off with his comrades to their gay cavalier war. One authentic incident of Sumters...