Word: quit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...primary day the Longsters happily touched off the "Kingfish's" electoral cannon. Hours before the polls were scheduled to close, election officials quit counting the votes. Since radio reports had assured them that the primary was in the bag, they merely bundled up the ballots and sent them off to Baton Rouge for the official count due by law eight days after the voting. With accurate returns lacking, at least a 2-to-1 victory was certain. In life, Huey Long had never done so well for himself...
William Jennings Bryan, first Wilson Secretary of State: His ban on foreign loans might have kept the U. S. out of war. When his neutrality views were over ruled by his President and Cabinet colleagues, he quit...
...willing to do it so long, in spite of his naturally conservative leanings, was explained by the fact that he looked upon himself not as a policy maker but as an expert who merely put his skill at the service of his country. Last week, however, he quit, simply saying in his letter to the President: "Circumstances have now arisen which make it advisable for me to tender you my resignation." An open secret in Washington was the fact that the "circumstances" were, in substance, the 1936 political campaign. Expert or no expert, he did not wish to stand...
...Aero Squadron. In the War he fought on all five fronts, became Chief of Staff of the A. E. F. air service, one of the youngest men in U. S. Army history to win a colonelcy. Awarded many a medal, he served at the Peace Conference, quit the Army in 1920 to work for Nordyke & Marmon Co. Joining Stutz Motor Car Co. in 1925, he became president in 1929, resigned last August...
...months after he set to work at $25 a week in the Manhattan office of International Mercantile Marine Co. (TIME, April 1) John Jacob Astor III quit his job, was reported displeased with the shipping business as a career...