Word: quit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...taken care of, and we don't see how Garner's economy program is going to mean food and jobs for them. If 'Cactus Jack' and all his bellowing calves in Congress would really get behind the old man and quit sniping at him and upsetting the country and business, we'd be able to put these jobless to work all the sooner...
Last week he quit while he and Pitt football were good, and his resignation was quickly accepted by Chancellor Bowman. On the campus students wore black mourning bands with JOCK printed on them in silver; the student paper, The Pitt News, printed two blistering columns blaming Jock's departure on "blundering...
Acquitted of manslaughter, he was transferred to Oklahoma City to edit the Oklahoma News. But the shock of the killing had dimmed some of Crusader Magee's fire, and after the death of old E. W., the Scripps beacon no longer shone so brightly. Editor Magee quit in 1933 to market a parking meter he had invented...
...Angeles' few major contributions to the cinema industry's personnel. Son of a sports promoter named Thomas ("Uncle Tom") McCarey, he went to U. S. C., studied law, played on the rugby team. After college, Leo McCarey tried work in a San Francisco law office, quit to tour the Orpheum circuit as a boxer, did pick-&-shovel work in Montana mines, returned to Hollywood, where a chance meeting with Director Tod Browning got him into the cinema industry. That was in 1918. Two years later, McCarey got a job as gag man and writer for Hal Roach which...
Assistant magazine editor of the Boston Transcript for two years after graduation from Harvard (1915), Marquand served in the cavalry on the Mexican border, overseas as first lieutenant of field artillery. After the War he tried reporting for a year on the New York Tribune, quit because it was no place to "make a fortune." As a bitter ad writer, he saved a few hundred dollars, quit to write popular fiction...