Word: quit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years before Cordell Hull and Franklin Roosevelt toured South America proclaiming: "We neither claim nor desire any rights or privileges or powers that we do not freely concede to any American Republic." But Elihu Root was a man of mind, not of emotions as politics requires. He quit in disgust after one term in the U. S. Senate (1909-15). Devoting himself to the role of Elder Statesman, he became a member of The Hague Court, president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, won the Nobel Peace Prize, was called by the League of Nations to help draft...
...equally superlative. Twenty writers, including Tess Slesinger, Marc Connelly, Talbot Jennings and Claudine West tried their band at adapting the stage version written by Owen and Donald Davis. Director George Hill went to China, returned with a boatload of authentic properties, presently committed suicide. Victor Fleming took the helm, quit with malaria. Sidney Franklin finished the job. Meanwhile the presiding genius, Irving Thalberg, died, left Al Lewin the production problems. Near Chatsworth, Calif., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer rented 500 acres, carved a replica of a Chinese landscape complete with Great Wall.* Real farms were planted, a real water buffalo imported...
...union affairs took up more & more of his time, Dick Frankensteen quit his Dodge job and he and Johnny Andrews naturally began drifting apart. When most of the independent automobile unions merged with United Automobile Workers last year, he led his A. I. W. A. locals into the fold, became U. A. W.'s chief organizer in the Detroit area. As such, he was in the front trenches when the great General Motors strike (see p. 14) began last December...
Died. Sir Percival Phillips, 59, last active newshawk of Britain's official frontline War correspondents, nephew of the onetime U. S. Senator Philander Chase Knox; of nephritis and heart disease; in London. Born & raised in Pennsylvania, when he had saved $76 he quit the Pittsburgh Times to see the Graeco-Turkish War of 1897. Next year, appearing with his bullet-proof typewriter-case just before trouble broke out, he covered the Spanish-American War. Thence he went to the Boxer Rebellion of 1900, the Russo-Japanese War of 1904, was in Brussels in 1914 when the German invasion began...
...Reserve Board itself was in frequent session. At the Treasury, Secretary Morgenthau was meeting with such oddly assorted people as State Department experts, President George L. Harrison of the New York Federal Reserve Bank and old Oliver Mitchell Wentworth Sprague, the onetime Treasury adviser who quit the New Deal in a huff...