Word: quit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...birthplace, which was in Sweden, or his first name, which was Torkild. This close-mouthed independence so pleased the rulers of Texaco that Captain Rieber was soon sent ashore. With a mind for nothing but work, he learned oil from the ground to the filling station before he quit Texaco in 1919 to work for American Republics Corp. (oil holding company...
Edward Arnold, whose real name is Guenther Schneider, was born in 1890 in Manhattan. His father, a German furrier, died when he was 11, his mother when he was 15. At 11 he was apprenticed to a wholesale jeweler, but truant officers made him quit. He worked as a newsboy, bellhop, janitor's assistant at Columbia University until he graduated from amateur theatricals at an East Side settlement house into touring in Shakespeare with the Ben Greet Players. Neither this nor playing juvenile leads with Ethel Barrymore convinced Edward Arnold that he had any future as an actor...
...leap in flood from its channel at Memphis and lash cross-country to a new sea mouth somewhere in Florida, the chaos and horror would be as indescribable as they were in China last week when the mighty Hwangho River finally made good its threat (TIME, July 22) to quit the channel in which it had flowed since...
...home ground was Professor George F. ("Rubber Dollar") Warren, the only moneyman who sold a major theory to President Roosevelt but who is no longer a frequent White House caller.* Also on hand was Professor Oliver Mitchell Wentworth Sprague, the Treasury's hard money adviser, who quit his post in 1933 as a protest against the prevailing Warren theories. Another was Professor James Harvey Rogers, who lost caste in Washington for criticizing the Administration's silver policies. There was even a self-appointed New Deal economist, Britain's Major Lawrence Lee Bazley Angas, prophet of coming...
Only a few years after Colonel Otis acquired the Times his eye had lit on an aggressive, cool-headed circulation hustler named Harry Chandler, a young fellow-Yankee from New Hampshire who had quit Dartmouth to go West for his health. Harry Chandler married the boss's daughter, was soon high in the saddle as the Times's general manager. From this vantage he looked with considerable anxiety on his father-in-law's savage enmity toward union labor...