Word: quit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Judiciary Committee arguing for impeachment: "The last case of this kind we took to the Senate [the Louderback impeachment] resulted in the greatest farce ever presented. At one time only three Senators were present, and for ten days we presented evidence to what was practically an empty chamber. . . . Quit talking now, boys, and behave. ... An impeachment in this case will be notice to the country that the time has come when a corporation seeking refuge in Federal Court is not a signal to crooked lawyers to flock in and feast on the carcass...
Week before the sea lion, having quit the Pacific for the Columbia River, ar rived rollicking in the tributary Willamette River off Oregon City, was stopped there by the falls. Chasing carp and salmon, it delighted State Police by fouling the gill nets of salmon poachers, was christened Sergeant Finnegan. Prevented from getting any rest by Oregon City crowds, it humped itself onto a fisherman's house boat, peered in a window and got three charges of buckshot in the face and neck, blinding one eye. It finally climbed a fish ladder beside the falls, roistered...
...merchants that if their shops were not locked up by the strike's deadline, their windows would be smashed. Not a shop in Pekin was open after 3 p.m. Six hundred allied workers at Corn Products Refining Co. then voted to walk out. Other workers promised to quit in sympathy...
...Fundamentally it is an association of craft unions dominated by skilled workers. These fear that their pay differential would decrease if they had to do their wage bargaining along with unskilled workers. Having fought the A. F. of L. Executive Council for two years from within, Miner Lewis lately quit to fight it from without (TIME, Dec. 2). Head of the biggest single A. F. of L. union, he rounded up seven other A. F. of L. unions into a Committee For Industrial Organization. Purpose: to spread industrial unionism. Last month the A. F. of L. Executive Council, sitting...
...evening ended with no answer to the question which has been bothering Manhattan for two months. Was this season to be Toscanini's last in the U. S.? Or was it only rumor that the Maestro was tired, eager to quit? If he did leave what would be the effect on music in Manhattan? Some took the stand that his presence has had its unfortunate reaction, that other conductors have been slighted because they lacked his consummate touch, that too many concertgoers have come to think more of a Toscanini performance than of the music that is played...