Word: quit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Omlies." In 1927 Mrs. Omlie won her transport license, first ever granted to a U. S. woman. In 1929-30-31 she walked off with the chief feminine prizes at the National Air Races. Finally, in 1932, after a half-million miles in the air, two serious crackups, she quit active flying, took a desk job with the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics in Washington...
...guilt, and Tenth Vice President William L. Hutcheson of the carpenters' union, whom Mr. Lewis punched in the jaw at Atlantic City last year, announced that his members wanted "Action." If the C. I. O. unions were not ousted, the carpenters would quit the Federation...
...Pennsylvania's Lieut. Governor Thomas Kennedy one night last week at an unidentified speaker in the State Senate gallery in Harrisburg. "I happen to be the President of the Senate, not you!" "Boo," chorused some 500 men, women & children as they pounded the brass gallery railings with sticks. "Quit stalling! Pass bills! Pass bills!" they screamed, raining their sticks down on the Senate floor below...
First stage in the reverberations were interviews with Swimmer Jarrett, her husband, Crooner Art Jarrett, whom she married in 1933, and her mother, Mrs. Charlotte Holm of Brooklyn. Said Swimmer Jarrett, who was offered a Ziegfeld Follies job at 16, worked for nine months as a Warner Brothers cinemactress, quit when a scheduled swimming role endangered her amateur status and hence her chance to defend her Olympic title. "I've been nightclubbing . . . for the last three years. . . . The night before the final tryouts I was up all night partying with my husband. . . . I've never made any secret...
When at last the soldiers in the ranks refused to fight, Chen knew he was beaten. He told Chiang, through an emissary, that he would quit if Chiang would give him a high-sounding title under which he could honorably travel abroad. That night his Second Kwangtung Army having surrendered, Chen scuttled to a British gunboat, headed for British Hongkong where he has a tidy investment in real estate...