Word: quit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the Armistice Lewis got a post in augurating a Chinese airline and teaching Chinese students to fly. He lived in Peking for two years, owned his own Chinese house at the age of 22, suddenly quit flying...
...head of the AAA he quarreled with Braintrusters over the agricultural codes, finally resigned. President Roosevelt made him special foreign trade adviser and head of the Export-Import Banks. Then came the reciprocal trade treaties, which George Peek thought Secretary Hull was mishandling. So he quit the Democrats for good. Last week he completed the cycle, announced, after twice publicly postponing his selection, that the man who would give the farmers the best break from the White House in 1937-41 would be Republican Alf Landon...
...tiny ship soared up to 1,600 ft., flew ten miles till it crashed into the Santa Suzanna Mountains after 1 hr., 47 min. Announcing that the demonstration had brought him a backer, Cinemactor Denny crowed: "I can fiddle around as much as I want to and can quit worrying about whether the plant loses money...
...M.I.T. adviser who believes in the inflexibility of economic law is Oliver Mitchell Wentworth Sprague, the Harvard seer who quit his advisory job in the Treasury in a huff over New Deal monetary policy. Last week in Washington Mr. ' Sprague held forth upon investment policy for the benefit of SEC. Pointing out that M.I.T. was deeply concerned with steady income. he observed that if appreciation were the chief object, a trust should be a one-man affair...
Bernard DeVoto should do things with it. He is a man who loves an upset. When he edited the Harvard Graduates' Magazine he offended so many old grads so indiscriminately that they demanded his resignation. But when he quit the number of cancelled subscriptions spelled death for the Magazine. He has been treating the readers of the S. R. L. for two or three years now, to excellent although infrequent reviews of headline books. As editor there are possibilities before him which may make the Saturday Review a critical organ without parallel in this country...