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Word: quit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...county attorney and public safety commissioner quit under fire. About the time lowans finished their State Fair revels last month (TIME. Sept. 9), the grand jury was concluding its work. It indicted 60 officials, gamblers and divekeepers on charges of conspiracy, bribery, perjury, obstruction of justice. At the top of the heap were State Attorney General Edward Lewis O'Connor; his first assistant; State Treasurer Leo Wegman and a State agent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IOWA: Corruption in the Corn | 9/30/1935 | See Source »

When Congress quit last month House Doorkeeper Joseph Sinnott took a last look around the bare chamber, went off on his vacation leaving the visitors' gallery open for sightseers. Last week Doorkeeper Sinnott returned from his vacation, peered up at the big gilt clock hanging just below the gallery, saw that some souvenir-hunter had made off with one of its two-foot hands. Indignantly the Doorkeeper locked up the House gallery until next session...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Souvenir | 9/30/1935 | See Source »

This spree was not without some skulduggery. First insiders spread the false rumor that Italy had quit the League of Nations. Shares zoomed wildly up. When the regular press association cables contradicted this false hope, shares slumped, the shoe-string speculators were sold out and the insiders picked up their 'shares again, having turned a quick profit. Later in the week the rumor mongers tried one along the line that Italy had accepted a League compromise. The short-sellers covered themselves comfortably as the market skidded down, were in a position to get back on the long side when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Big Bright Bogey | 9/30/1935 | See Source »

...automobile accident. All pictures of him have to be retouched. Before he acts he uses many layers of grease paint, reshapes his nose with putty. Like all old-line troupers, he tried to take a hand in stage-managing his pictures. This brought on arguments. One day he almost quit because it seemed to him there were not enough chickens around a farmhouse set. Another time he got into a furious fight about his dialect, which Director Charles Vidor criticized. "Oh, it ain't Irish, isn't it?" he yelled. "Well, let me tell you, Mr. Know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 30, 1935 | 9/30/1935 | See Source »

When Joseph Schenck and his Twentieth Century Pictures quit United Artists to merge with Fox last June, the remaining owner-producers (Mary Pickford, Samuel Goldwyn, Charles Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks) hastily set about compensating for their loss. First, David O. Gelznick decided to leave Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, form his own producing company to distribute pictures through United Artists. Then Mary Pickford took for a partner Jesse Lasky (who was last week vastly disgruntled by news that M-G-M had contrived to beat him in signing a contract with aging Ernestine Schumann-Heink, whom he had already announced as a star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Korda Into United Artists | 9/16/1935 | See Source »

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