Word: quit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dutifully Trubee Davison studied law at Columbia, allied himself as a lowly worker with the local Republican machine. He attended the 1920 national convention to watch the big wheels turn. He became secretary to Charles Dewey Hilles, New York's National Committeeman. When Theodore Roosevelt Jr. quit the Assembly in 1921 to go to Washington, Trubee Davison got himself elected to the vacancy. His colleagues found him easy, democratic, willing to work. He was made chairman of the committee on taxation. He kept his bailiwick?the fashionable North Shore of Long Island?friendly and peaceful. Its biggest annual political event...
After Mayor Walker quit the stand, it took John J. Curtin, his white-haired chief counsel, a day and a half to sum up the defense and move unsuccessfully for a dismissal of the charges. Lawyer Curtin talked till his voice cracked. He was voluble but ungrammatically inarticulate. He harangued the Governor as if he were a low-grade juror. Samples of the Curtin argument...
While Chico and Harpo were playing pianos, Groucho was developing his soprano voice. Confirmed in the Jewish faith at 13, he became a choir boy in a Manhattan Episcopal Church, quit when punished for puncturing the organ bellows with an alto's hatpin. He learned to tap dance. His mother persuaded her friend Ned Wayburn to get him a job in a Gus Edwards act (where famed Eddie Cantor, George Jessel, Georgie. Price. Walter Winchell received their histrionic training). When Groucho was 14, he went to Denver to be boy soprano in a trio. Soon after he arrived...
...hired 67 performers, distributed them among 21 vaudeville acts loosely held together by conversations between stage and a lower box, and had six left over for a claque. Producer Brown called the result "super-vaudeville." Actors' Equity Association called it a revue, ordered the 33 Equity members to quit, threatened to oust them when they refused. Last week none had given notice, none had been dropped from Equity, Producer Brown was still filling two houses a day, including Sunday, at prices from...
When the War was over, Bertram Coles Neidecker, tall, slim son of a Brooklyn realtor, quit the U. S. Air Corps and joined Herbert Clark Hoover's relief mission to the starving Poles. He married a Pole, Sybil, daughter of Maurice Washington Kozminski of the French Line, and set himself up in Coblenz as a money changer to confused U. S. soldiers in the Army of Occupation. Later he moved to Paris, opened a Travelers Bank a few doors from Morgan et Cie. By 1928 Banker Neidecker had bought a yacht, put his bank in larger quarters...