Word: quit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...already shipped 2,200 trucks and busses to the Italians in Africa. Thumbing his nose at the State Department, President Walter Teagle of Standard Oil of New Jersey announced that his firm had been doing business with Italy for more than 40 years and was not ready to quit now. The American Export Liner Exochorda, one of the biggest U. S. freighters in the Mediterranean service, steamed out of Jersey City with the greatest cargo in her career, consisting chiefly of such near-war materials as lubricating oil, copper, motors, apparently consigned to Italy...
Patience was the mainspring of Benito Mussolini's policy last week as his troops wormed forward through difficult terrain. First Japan, then Germany quit the League of Nations on a fraction of the provocation Geneva offered to Rome last week, but Il Duce kept playing the Geneva game. He scarcely expected, however, to take any tricks before the British general election is over...
...Having quit the League of Nations two years ago, Japan was ready for anything. Said canny Foreign Office Spokesman Eiji Amau last week, "Japan will not obstruct the League of Nations. . . . Our attitude toward sanctions will be decided by Japan's interests and her policy as a whole...
...nation's 400,000 soft-coal miners who quit work last fortnight (TIME, Sept. 30) their strike turned out to be nothing but a good, profitable rest. While they loafed and slept, representatives of operators and miners who had been haggling in Washington since mid-February came to terms in four days. Contracts were signed to begin this week, run until April 1, 1937. Day-rate workers, including two-thirds of all miners, got their basic pay upped from $5 to $5.50 per day. Adding on similar increases for piece-workers, operators figured their labor bill had been raised...
...eased a pain in one of his ears. Edward of Wales last week shot a chamois in the Austrian Alps, stuffed the beard in his pocket, departed for Germany to continue his holiday. Meantime. Britons goggled at the latest picture of their future King-Emperor, taken just before he quit the French Riviera...