Word: quit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Henry Hooper of the Foundation scurried up. "Henry, I forgot to tell you: I left two bags of seeds, one walnut and one pine. I wish you would plant them in the nursery." Up went the gangplank. Off went the train. When the special stopped at Chattanooga, the President quit work on his speech, went out to the rear platform. "I don't have to tell you," he declared to the station crowd, "of my interest in this State and in this section of this State, because in the Tennessee Valley the nation as a whole is conducting...
...Avon, holder of Britain's No. 1 diplomatic job, the Ambassadorship to France, from 1928 to 1934. Lord Tyrrell accepted the job because he needed the money. Lord Tyrrell knows the Continent like the palm of his hand, loves France and is distrusted by Germans. When he quit his Ambassadorship last year because of poor health, the Nazi newspaper Völkischer Beobachter chortled, "His departure is a gain for the pacification of Europe and exorcises the baneful Versailles spirit he fostered. Lord Tyrrell was a man of yesterday who simply could not understand that...
...strangers are automatically considered revenue agents. Born in Smithville, Tenn. in 1910, Ed Bell worked in a brickyard at 10, has since worked in a rock quarry, on a bridge construction crew, in a grocery store, as a janitor, plasterer, chicken farmer, newspaper reporter. Attending college briefly, he quit after he had been suspended three times for his writings in the college paper. Tall, bushy-haired, expressing himself in the twanging speech of the hill country, he now lives in Murfreesboro, where he began his literary career by conducting a newspaper column for which he received no salary...
...Tobacco Act, 3) the NRA Coal Code. Then he resigned, because "I have been greatly disturbed by the tendency of Congress in the last three years to override all Constitutional limitations in the enactment of so-called New Deal legislation. . . . One of the impelling motives that prompted me to quit the bench was the deep-seated conviction that in the next few years I would best serve my country by opposing such legislation in the courts...
Promptly the company announced there were not enough good Mexican pilots to man its five planes, that it refused to fly passengers behind untrained men, that it would quit operations at once. To General Mujica went many a pleading letter from the company's 225 Mexican employes, who feared losing their jobs. To President Lazaro Cardenas, too miserable with Malta fever to be interested, went the thanks "of Mexico's Association of Military Pilots...