Word: quit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dismay and regret I feel!" gasped Ontario Attorney General Arthur Roebuck, the spearhead of Mitch's onslaughts upon "the power barons" and "the interests." "If there were only himself to consider," snorted Ontario's Health Minister James Faulkner, M. D., "I wouldn't blame Mitch for quitting!" After much pecking, Ontario newshawks convinced themselves last week that Mitchell Hepburn was not abdicating to please the Power Barons but solely because service in His Majesty's Flying Corps during the War cost him a kidney and his remaining kidney has now abruptly convinced him that...
Sensing that the British-Italian-Ethiopian snarl has tied white men's hands for some time to come, Japan boldly raised at Geneva last week the great question she has tried to keep hushed until now: What right has Japan, since she quit the League, to continue to hold "League-mandated" strategic islands in the Pacific...
...persons would take Dexter Keezer for a college president. Periodically since his graduation from Amherst in 1920, he has found academic life dull. For a year he was a reporter on the Denver Times. He took a Ph.D. in economics at the Brookings Institution but quit teaching after six years. From 1929 to 1933 he was associate editor of the Baltimore Sun. In 1933 General Johnson made him executive director of the NRA Consumers' Advisory Board...
...retirement last week went wizened Philip Snowden, sulphurous First Viscount Snowden of Ickornshaw and in his day the Labor Party's great Chancellor of the Exchequer (1924 & 1929-31). As a campaign orator, the noble Viscount has no peer in scathing invective and corrosive scorn. He quit the Labor Party four years ago to campaign for his old friend James Ramsay MacDonald so that the National Government formed at the behest of King George (TIME, Aug. 31, 1931) could triumph at the polls. Last week Viscount Snowden proved that his heart in Britain's next general election...
...Annie Laurie" was born in Wisconsin, daughter of Civil War General Benjamin Sweet. Educated at swank finishing schools, she went on the stage, quit when she was handed a burlesque role. On the strength of several letters she had had printed in the Chicago Tribune, she got a job there, held it a week. In 1890 she went to San Francisco, was hired by the Examiner. She had a theory that "a woman has a distinct advantage over a man in reporting if she has sense. . . . Men always are good to women." One of the first things...