Word: quit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last folded its moulting blue wings and sank to ashes. Of its remaining 2,000 employes, 600 were ordered fired, about 30 were transferred to the Department of Labor, the rest to the Department of Commerce where they will finish their work by April 1 and quit...
...chance. Besides, if Mr. Olson should resign to go to the Senate, his Lieutenant Governor Hjalmar Peterson would almost automatically become the Farmer-Labor candidate for Governor in 1936. What Governor Olson obviously needed was a Senator pro tern, someone who would take the job for a. year, then quit willingly and help elect Floyd Olson to the U. S. Senate. Who would be so likely to fill this bill as the man whom Mr. Olson had picked to be Governor after him? Next autumn they could politely change places on the ticket and support each other for office...
...than George Alviel White. He says he has been on his own since he was 5. Successively a stable boy, jockey, shoe-shiner, military mascot, newsboy, bellhop, he was delivering telegrams for Postal when some extempore dance steps in a Bowery saloon earned him $12. At that point he quit the telegraph company's employ but retained its uniform, dancing in it for throw money in saloons. On one occasion Clarence Mackay's future son-in-law, a waiter named Israel Baline, tossed '"Swifty" White into the street for making a nuisance of himself...
After plumbing the mysterious depths of the Hoare Crisis further, the anti-Deal and pro-League New York Times anxiously headlined: "BALDWIN ANXIOUS TO QUIT AS PREMIER. Official Burdens Rest Heavily on Him, but He Is Not Likely to Act Precipitately. Hoare Aspires to Post His Stock Rising Since Speech of Defense...
...remarkable young man just half his age. The old man was William J. Filbert, bald, popeyed, secretive master of Steel's endless columns of statistics. Presumably he was 70, Steel's compulsory retirement age, since it was inconceivable that Mr. Filbert would quit voluntarily. One of the few ascertainable dates in Mr. Filbert's virtually dateless career is 1881, the year he went to work for Chicago & North Western Ry. By 1901 when the Steel Corp. was founded, Mr. Filbert was already marshalling facts & figures in one of the component companies. A legendary figure listed in neither...