Word: quit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...invest. Once he explained his success thus: "You just go to New York and take an interest in things. You just look around." In 16 years Mr. Meyer had made all the money he wanted and more. When War came in 1917 he was only too glad to quit the financial district and go to Washington at the call of his great & good friend Bernard Mannes Baruch to take an advisory position with the War Industries Board. When Congress created War Finance Corp. to make loans to industries essential to the War, President Wilson made Mr. Meyer a director, later...
...English team that people expected a month ago. Aidan Roark got mastoid. Captain Richard George, another tentative No. 1, fell ill too. Barney Balding was tried out for a week. He had to quit after a bad fall. A young lieutenant of the Royal Scots Greys named Humphrey Guinness had done well as a substitute in 1927. There was nothing for it now but to put him in at back, move the veteran Lewis Lacey to No. 2-a position he had never played before when a match meant anything-leave Capt. C. T. I. Roark...
...Western was dead, two other alleged racketeers were surely dead in Brooklyn, and two more were in hospitals, struggling to keep alive, all shot since Klein's drunken revelations. Because of these shootings, District Attorney George E. Browers of Kings County dramatically gave all gangsters 48 hours to quit Brooklyn or be ousted. "Force will be met with force," said...
Long ago one George K. Spoor experimented with a primitive projection machine, started the first film distributing company, became a controlling factor in the old Essanay Co. In 1916 he quit film production but continued experiments to find new tools. Last fortnight, and again last week, Experimenter Spoor announced some new cinema devices which he had developed with the aid of two engineers ?Fred J. Lindbergh (no kin) and P. John Berggren?and which, coming from George K. Spoor, may well prove important...
...fallen off to such an extent that they now average only $3,000 a year. So, last week, reported the Rev. Charles Stelzle, onetime printing press machinist, long an investigator of sociological and religious problems, now a publicist. He had queried 100 leading evangelists on their business. Thirty had quit because they no longer could make a living in the profession...