Word: quit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inspiration to Gasoline Alley's benign Walt Wallet. Within ten months, the solemn doings of Doc Wright were beginning to bore Artist Goldberg as much as they did many a reader. Though Doc Wright still appeared in more than zoo papers, independently wealthy Artist Goldberg quit drawing altogether, devoted full time to his writing instead...
...story concerns a crack squad of "connectors," the men who bolt structural beams in place to be followed by the "gunners'' who rivet them. Andy, the arrogant and prideful leader of the gang, becomes angry when one of his men, Nils, announces that he is going to quit because his wife is afraid he will fall. Another man does fall, whereupon his co-workers traditionally knock off for the day, start drinking in their favorite barroom. When Nils refuses to change his mind. Andy drunkenly concocts a ruse by which he in duces Nils to believe that...
...ablest pen in 1936 has been that of Des Moines Register's, Jay Norwood ("Ding") Darling. This year "Ding," who carried away from Washington a first-rate grudge when he quit the U. S. Bureau of Biological Survey because the New Deal failed to spend enough on conserving his beloved wild life, has pounded tirelessly at the New Deal spending on other projects. He has shown Harry Hopkins making the electorate sit up and bark for WPA grants, Franklin Roosevelt as a Roman emperor tossing a puny taxpayer to a gladiator labeled Eleven Billion Dollar Deficit...
Brisk and personable young "Jimmy" Warburg welcomed Franklin Roosevelt's election in 1932 with high enthusiasm, took his place as one of the New President's close economic advisers. Among the first such pilots to abandon the New Deal ship, he quit in bitter disillusionment after the President torpedoed the London Economic Conference, at which Banker Warburg was U. S. fiscal expert, and with it Warburg's hopes for currency stabilization and revived international trade. Last year Banker Warburg capped his outspoken criticism of his old chief with Hell Bent for Election, which eloquently denounced Franklin Roosevelt...
...particularly etching, always interested him. Working alone and teaching himself, he etched two plates, took them down to London to sell. Instantly Dealers Colnogni & Co. recognized the effectiveness of his draughtsmanship, his forceful use of strong black shadows, bargained for all the etchings Bone could make. Muirhead Bone quit the bank, has never since failed to prosper...