Word: quit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dealers have any warm liking for Mr. Ford, because of his autocratic methods and because the commission he allows them is the lowest in the industry, 17%. Before the War Mr. Perry (not yet Sir) quit Mr. Ford, served 1916-18 as director of foods, farm machinery, and later put through the enormous task of disposing of Britain's War salvage...
...Dakota. Board chairman of this company is Heber Jedediah Grant, now President of the Mormon Church. But though net current assets are listed at $3,466,860, worldwide oversupply of sugar following upon Wartime excess production has gravely injured this industry, and President Grant says the Church would gladly quit the business, if possible, at a 50% loss. But if it be true that the Mormon Tabernacle rests, among other things, on sugar beets, it is likewise true that the Church's beet-backing has been primarily for the benefit of the farmer. And the Church is not likely...
...playmates. They used him to shield their deviltry. The Gang supposedly centred around Daugherty in the Department of Justice.? Its active manager was Jess Smith, Daugherty's friend and roommate, onetime Ohio dry-goods clerk, whose body was found in his hotel room after he had threatened to "quit the racket...
...several years she acted in Metro cinemas, following the vampire tradition established by Theda Bara, Louise Glaum, et al. Metro's president at that time was B. A. Rolfe, stunt cornetist, now director of the Lucky Strike radio dance orchestra. Last year Nazimova quarrelled with Eva Le Gallienne, quit the latter's Civic Repertory Company after a short engagement. A small woman with a mass of black bobbed hair, she lives in Westchester County. N. Y., wears costumes decoratively Russian, is famed for her even disposition. I Want My Wife is a preposterous, unhappy little farce about...
...tried to divide the work of one. When the Jacksonville agreement lapsed and the operators refused to renew it, President Lewis opposed any wage reduction, kept Union miners out of work. Strikes were called only to fail in human misery and destitution (TIME, Nov. 28, 1927 et seq.). Members quit the U. M. W. to find work in non-Union fields. "Yellow dog" contracts replaced Union agreements. Once 308,000 Union miners worked in bituminous fields, outside of Illinois. Now there are a scant 26,000. Union membership in Ohio has dwindled from 42,000 to a bare...