Word: quit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that moment. Comrade Maxim Maximovitch Litvinov, Soviet Foreign Commissar, was strolling into the lobby. Prime Minister MacDonald, himself a Socialist,† held out his hand to clasp that of Comrade Litvinov right warmly-never thinking of the impossible position in which this placed Mrs. Stimson. She, flushing, quit Scot MacDonald's side and beat a hasty retreat to Statesman Stimson whose State Department does not recognize the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics...
...Michigan Daily: "In general, we believe politics is too unremunerative as a profession to be a field for the college graduate. The general attitude is one of disinterestedness. . . ." The University of Rochester Campus: ". . . Rochester men do not agree with the Yale Daily News. . . . College men should not quit because the task appears difficult." The Penn State Collegian: ". . . Before the undergraduate gets too critical, he should attempt to clear up a bit in his own backyard. Some of the methods used to get votes by fraternity cliques in many colleges would put the average politician to shame." The Daily Princetonian: ". . . Most...
From Mr. Cord Avco also took over a labor problem. Last winter he reduced pilots' wages, came into conflict with the Airline Pilots Association, affiliated with the A. F. of L. (TIME, Feb. 22). The 23 pilots of Century Air Lines quit (they charged a "lock-out") and service was interrupted until a "strikebreaking" crew was trained. By the sale to Avco a complete operating personnel of 350 is thrown out of work. Last week, in his apartment in the tower of Manhattan's swank Waldorf-Astoria, Mr. Cord intimated that the pilots (about 50 including Century Pacific's) would...
...take the American Airways job, Col. Rickenbacker resigned the vice-presidency of General Aviation Corp. (General Motors affiliate) in which his prime job had been to sell Fokker planes. (Since the withdrawal of stormy "Tony"' Fokker, General has quit building the Fokker line.) Hainer Hinshaw had headquarters in Washington where he was one of aviation's most potent lobbyists. He has joined United Air Lines. Vice President Ricken-backer's headquarters will be in Manhattan but his duties may take him frequently to the Capital...
...woman's love for a horse. Though critics, with few exceptions, have extolled the splendor and intensity of Poet Jeffers' works, some women think that he spoils his poems with such outrageous themes. Even his wife complained. "Robin," said she after he had finished "Roan Stallion," "when will you quit forbidden themes?" Robin answered with an enigmatic smile. To him, there is nothing in his writings either "surprising or subversive, but the mere common sense of our predicament as passionate bits of earth and water." To dignify men's passions, men's predicaments, he had merely motivated his tragedies with...