Word: quit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government of Northern Rhodesia. The Government, getting most of its revenue from income tax, native taxes, customs stamps and licenses, is actually poor. For that reason Northern Rhodesia's executive council lately raised the native poll tax from 10 to 15 shillings. For black Roan workmen, who cannot quit during their contract term, that was the last straw. Last week they went on strike, first at Mufulira, then at Nkana, then at Roan Antelope itself at Luanshya. The 10,000 white Britons on the savannah, who are rated with the cream of British colonists, began to think about...
...talk to put down their growing feeling that they had better forget NRA and look for jobs elsewhere. But when Senators called him to account for calling them muddle-heads, he excused himself, saying he felt free to speak, since he himself was planning to quit NRA soon, about July 1. Nor was he alone in that. W. Averell Harriman, NRA Administrative officer, and Sol Rosenblatt, Director of Compliance & Enforcement, were both reported ready to leave on June 16. NRA had apparently come to the Chapter of Exodus...
...Samuel Bowleses (TIME, Oct. 15), had long been quarreling with the local typographical union.* A wage-&-hours dispute had been settled only a month when last week Mr. Bowles turned up a new fight. He ordered one of his crack linotype operators on the News, Kenneth Irving Taylor, to quit his machine and take the foremanship of the composing room. Compositor Taylor, mild-mannered, bespectacled, member of the Springfield Board of Public Welfare, refused on grounds that his presidency of the local union forbade his being a boss. Sherman Bowles promptly fired him. Out, on their president's heels...
Having in ten short years made Allied Chemical & Dye Corp. into the most successful chemical company in the U. S., Orlando Weber planned to retire in 1929. The Depression came. When he quit last week he could proudly point to a $400,000,000 balance sheet with $55,000,000 in cash or its equivalent; more proudly to $200,000,000 paid in dividends with no Depression interruption; and most proudly to the fact that he has never cut wages...
...they were married in his native Manhattan. They had known each other since college days when he went to Columbia and she to nearby Barnard. Father Ochs smiled on the match, imposed only one stipulation: whoever became his son-in-law must also work on the Times. Willingly Arthur quit the silk business at which he had worked for his father, Cyrus L. Sulzberger. From his philanthropist father, Arthur had acquired a big urge for civic responsibility, and family pride in the fact that his great-great-grandfather was Lieut. Benjamin Mendes Seixas of the American Colonial Army...