Word: quit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lefty Golden Boy); by Luise Rainer, 26, Continental actress who won the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences award in both 1936 and 1937 (The Great Ziegfeld, The Good Earth); in Hollywood. Charges: he brooded, stayed away nights, failed to visit her in the hospital, suggested, that she quit her career. Divorced. Eleanor Holm Jarrett, 24, onetime Olympic backstroke swimmer; by Arthur L. Jarrett. 30, jazz-band leader and crooner; in Los Angeles. Charges: he had been caused "great mental anguish and embarrassment" by her public announcement that she and Billy Rose, tiny producer of vast shows, would be married...
...Governor Elmer Austin Benson, who is engaged in a struggle for renomination in the June 20 primary. Opposed to him is Farmer-Labor's more conservative faction, whose Candidate Hjalmar Petersen was Governor for a few months in 1936 following the death of Governor Olson and who once quit the party because he thought it was going Communist. Last week the fight shifted to a new front...
...Harry Gideonse's rank still remained that of associate professor, his salary $5,500. Three times his colleagues recommended that he be appointed to a full professorship; three times President Hutchins ignored the recommendation. Last week Harry Gideonse quit the University of Chicago, accepted a,full professorship at Columbia. Said he: "There has been no personal quarrel between President Hutchins and me. . . . Dr. Hutchins and I have simply not seen eye to eye on educational policy. ... I expect to find a more congenial atmosphere at Columbia." The shocked Chicago faculty promptly adopted a resolution of "deep regret." President Hutchins...
...corner and in a split second was toe-to-toe and chest-to-chest with his opponent. For 15 rounds he pounded ring-wise Barney Ross with relentless fury-1.200 punches in 45 minutes. Barney Ross, dripping blood and teetering on his helpless legs, refused to quit, went the full 15 rounds rather than have his first knockout chalked against...
...effect. This seemed "realistic" indeed at the time. Day before the pact was signed Rightist Generalissimo Franco's troops planted their flags on the shores of the Mediterranean and both Chamberlain and Mussolini were convinced that further Leftist resistance would be short-lived. But the Leftists refused to quit. And the thing that gave them most heart was the arrival of at least 200 new planes, presumably from Russia (see p. 16), besides a stream of raw and war materials...