Word: quit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...salary checks they tried to lure players from the two older leagues. When Mack's dissatisfied players demanded more money, he decided to break up the team, sold his famed infield to clubs in his own league. The Federal League lost so much money it was forced to quit at the end of the 1915 season. Connie Mack had come on evil days, too. For seven years (1915-21) his Athletics finished last in the American League, while he squinted shrewd eyes at 1,000 young men to find the right combination for another winning team...
...film, The Blood of a Poet, produced visceral chills wherever it was jeered or cheered. His pictures drawn under the influence of opium are monstrous and unforgettable. Critics have found Cocteau difficult to classify. His Oedipus says, "Classifiable things reek of death. You must strike out in other spheres . . . quit the ranks. That's the sign of masterpieces and heroes. An original, that's the person to astonish and to rule...
...response to notice from shapely, 23-year-old Cinemactress Dorothy Lamour, wife of an orchestra leader, that she would quit films Dec. 10, 1938, to lay plans to have a child, Paramount suggested that she compromise, adopt one. She declined. Ivan F. Cox, deposed secretary-treasurer of Harry Bridges' San Francisco longshoremen's union, filed suit against 5,000 Jane & John Does, Longshoreman Bridges and other union officials, Cinemactors Fredric March, Franchot Tone, Mary Astor, James Cagney, Lionel Stander, Jean Muir, and Director William Dieterle. Charge: Led by Cinemactor March, the group had conspired to propagate Communism...
...Sports Columnist Gallico quit the News and was divorced by his second wife, who, as the daughter of Sobsister Adela Rogers St. Johns, comes from an-other celebrated newspaper family. He fictionized stories he had heard as personal experiences in the news rooms of the News, wrote his Farewell to Sports* for Hearst's Cosmopolitan. When he became bored with freelancing last January, the News rehired him at an ordinary reporter's salary to do general assignments, among them the Fisher Body sitdown in Detroit. But stories like that do not break every...
...upped annual gross operating revenues from $74,000 to $400,000. Last June when the Montclair was offered for sale, Hitz and a group of friends proceeded to buy it for $3,000,000. Thereupon, Hotel Lexington, Inc. canceled its contract with N. H. M. Manager Rochester quit Hitz to continue as the Lexington's manager. Ralph Hitz has not spoken to Charles Rochester since...