Word: quit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shultz") Flegenheimer went on trial last week at Syracuse, N. Y. for evading $92,103.34 in income taxes on $481,637.35 made in 1929-31 from "various unlawful business enterprises and rackets," he volunteered to reporters a partial biography. He is 33, was born in Manhattan's Yorkville, quit grammar school after the sixth grade, became a printer and pressman, then a roofer, a trade he abandoned when he was 17. Here the onetime master of The Bronx beerage, reputed boss of the policy game racket and the last of the great Prohibition Era gangsters left alive...
...General had hardly quit the committee room before Senators were given something new to chew on. It was a report on NRA's accomplishments by Brookings Institution, an independent Washington foundation which makes economic studies and researches. The authors were Leon C. Marshall (who prepared some of the material before leaving the Institution to become executive secretary of NIRB), Leverett S. Lyon, onetime deputy assistant NRAdministrator, and four other economists including George Terborgh, a member of the Federal Reserve Board's staff. Only excerpts from the report were made public...
...France. No. 1 of these seven corpses was the body of French Equatorial Africa's new Governor General Edouard Renard. Last year he indignantly resigned a snug Parisian job as president of the Paris Municipal Council when his good friend Jean Chiappe was forced to quit as Chief of the Paris Police. Soaring with him over the steaming, noisome jungle went his swank second wife, Dutch relict of a U. S. soap manufacturer, Michael Winburn (Omega, Cadum). So far as could be learned, the $390,000 contents of Mme Renard's jewel case are either lost...
...Davis, that hero of U. S. juveniles on the Beech-Nut radio hour. Grandson of a Protestant minister of Cleveland, Ohio, Meredith was sent to Manhattan to sing in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine choir, later began working his way through Amherst by washing dishes. He quit that after a year, took up newspaper work at which he was cheerful but unsuccessful, got his first chance on the stage through the recommendation of a dancer friend. Critics like his freshness and sincerity and the Cornell pressagent is billing him as "the Hamlet...
...Conquer," had at last been hit on as a name, and the opening was set for the night of March 15th, 1773. But the rehearsals dragged badly. Colman's pessimism was contagious. The actors walked through their parts like sulky children. At the last minute the male lead quit, and an erstwhile Harlequin had to take over the part...