Word: quit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Keeping out of the streets was not enough for the harassed citizens of Nanking, 195 mi. up the Yangtze. Giving warning to all foreigners to quit the city at once, Japan prepared for a mass bombing raid aimed at the total destruction of Nanking with a dress rehearsal in which the city was bombed mercilessly for two hours, with little retaliation from either Chinese anti-aircraft batteries or planes...
...poor newspaper moujik in Chicago 15 years ago I quit one day and announced I was out to make a million. Now I've got 50 grand and I'm satisfied...
...facts about Andrew Mellon, other than his fortune, were exceedingly simple. Born at Pittsburgh in 1855, he was the son of a hard-headed Tyrone County Scotch-Irishman who -"ounded the banking house of T. Mellon & Sons. At 18, Andrew quit Western University of Pennsylvania to start a lumber business with his 15-year-old brother, Dick. When the lumber business succeeded, first Andrew and then Brother Richard joined the bank, which they built into the $380,000,000 Mellon National Bank. In the next 40-some years, Andrew Mellon multiplied the Mellon capital...
...figure of Madam Secretary Perkins-he sweated over the job of settling major strikes. Last week the old rumor of his resignation blossomed once again, perhaps for the last time. For next day, after a conference with the President, Ed McGrady denied for the nth time that he had quit, denied in a way that amounted to a confirmation. Said he: "I have not resigned yet. . . . I'll give you all 48 hours notice...
...fields of radio: communications, broadcasting & manufac-luring. Year ago, RCA paid his friend General Hugh Johnson-who may have suggested the new arrangement to RCA's David Sarnoff-$40,000 to mediate a single strike in the Camden manufacturing plant. Best guess why Ed McGrady did not abruptly quit last week was that he wanted to let the President start the difficult job of picking his successor, a man who, among other things, must be, as Ed McGrady was, acceptable to and trusted by C.I.O.'s John Lewis and A. F. of L.'s William Green...