Word: quit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year, moved L. & T. headquarters from Chicago to Manhattan. No reason for the change was given but the trade knew that 58-year-old Albert Lasker (onetime head of the U. S. Shipping Board) has grown more interested lately in cruises than in clients, has long planned to quit the $40,000,000-a-year business he has controlled since...
Year after she made Extase, Actress Kiesler, daughter of a Viennese banker, married Austrian Munitions Tycoon Fritz Mandl. He made her quit acting and by last summer, after their marriage was dis solved by the French courts, had spent nearly $300,000 trying to take Extase out of circulation. Last fall Hedy popped up on the Normandie under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, on landing stole some of the spotlight from such noted fellow voyagers as Danielle Darrieux, Fernand Gravet, Ambassador Bill Bullitt...
...spoken Douglas Leigh hoped to work for Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn. he was unsuccessful, instead landed a job with General Outdoor Advertising Co., Inc., for which in three years' time he became a top-notch salesman. But dis gruntled by a long string of Depression salary cuts, he quit the job in 1933, sold his old Ford for $150 and used the money to start a business of his own. In Times Square last week-a little over five years later-he snapped a switch to light his latest advertising creation, a mammoth animated cartoon for Old Gold cigarets...
...Tired, discouraged, worried about health and money, Bertrand Snell, 67, Republican leader in the House, announced that after 24 years he would quit Congress, go back to his bank, insurance company and pump plant in northwestern New York...
...member concerned was tall, flaxen-haired, scented Duncan Sandys (pronounced Sands), 30-year-old son-in-law of Winston Churchill. Like the Duchess of Atholl (see p. 17) and Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, member of the House of Lords (TIME, July 4), Sandys is a Conservative who has quit the Chamberlain ranks and is now regarded as his father-in-law's voice from the "back benches...