Word: quit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Kenneth Collins, one year out of college, quit teaching freshman composition at the University of Idaho he almost entered the Episcopal ministry but decided to do graduate work at Harvard instead. Passing through Manhattan he saw a five-inch, two-column Macy advertisement: "EXECUTIVE POSITION OPEN IN OUR ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT. We require a man of high calibre to supervise and direct a staff of copywriters in the preparation of advertising. This is a key position which offers a creative opportunity and carries with it much responsibility...
...other man who helped to squeeze him was his own lieutenant, fiery Wilhelm Frick, chairman of the National Socialist Party in the Reichstag. Without waiting for his leader to make an announcement, Nazi Frick blurted out to a mass meeting at Kempten, Bavaria, the flat declaration that Bruning must quit, that the Nazis would take no part in the movement to re-elect Old Paul by popular vote. The meaning was clear: If Old Paul wanted Nazi support he must get rid of Bruning, a thing Old Paul would hardly do. Handsome Adolf's mustache wiggled convulsively. Here was possible...
...pays to hire scholars. Twenty and more years ago he was professor of applied electro-chemistry and chemical engineering at the University of Wisconsin. Manufacturers hesitated to use his novel ideas concerning the electrolytic purification of iron, dry batteries, corrosion. He organized his own companies, his own industrial laboratory, quit the university. He now heads five corporations capitalized for $3,000,000, hiring 1,000 .persons and producing goods worth $6,000,000 yearly...
Ousted Mr. Lyons and his friend Mr. Fenton dramatically broke with Premier Scullin, quit his Labor Party and rushed off to achieve remarkable success in winning supporters from Australia's old guard conservative politicians for what they christened the "United Australia Party...
...Dewlip (Leslie Banks) was as charming and entertaining a person as you would hope to meet. He drank too much, slept too little, made ardent love to his best friend's wife. That was before he hired wide-eyed Miss Smith (Helen Chandler) for his secretary. After that he quit tippling, quit gambling, went to bed early and infinitely bored everyone he knew. Finally he was reclaimed, but not before it developed that Miss Smith had shot her French husband?"poor dear"?because he simply could not break himself of the habit of bringing...