Word: quit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...built up the ablest staff of newswriters in the city. They, in turn, fairly idolized him. More than one actually wept into his beer at the prospect of a city room without City Editor Walker. That loyalty was a contributing factor in Stanley Walker's decision to quit. He had never been able to get the Herald Tribune to pay his bright, hard-working young men what he knew they were worth. But his prime reasons for joining the Mirror, said he, were "fun and money." His Herald Tribune salary, around $10,000, was doubled by Publisher Hearst, with...
...good newsworthy grip on. A quarter of his address was given over to warding off criticism. His declaration that the profit motive should not be destroyed answered a question whose embers have for six months gradually been growing cold. Headline sentence: "The Federal Government must and shall quit this business of relief." Keywords of his theme: "broad" and "sound"-"broad program," "broad problem," "broad subjects," "broad outlines," "broad principles," "sound policy," "sound administration," "sound conditions." The two points on which he made news...
George Marshall's successor is nearly everything that George Marshall is not. Arthur Grover Newmyer, 49, quit as general manager of the New Orleans Item-Tribune to join Publisher Hearst. His new job will complete a long, meritorious cycle: He began life as a $3.50-a-week stenographer on the Washington Times 35 years ago, when the late Walter Hutchins owned it. Arthur Newmyer, whose father ran a steam carpet-cleaning plant in Washington, rose to be night city editor. When the late unlamented Frank A. Munsey bought the paper and began to fire newshawks right & left, Newmyer transferred...
...Later he worked for the Wright Brothers who were experimenting with flying machines, finally went to New Mexico and turned his talents to politics. Last May Albuquerque voted on recalling him as Mayor, decided against it, 6 to 1. His winning campaign slogan: "I ain't going to quit saying ain't when I'm elected Governor...
...Cunard-White Star Line officers must do on reaching 60, Captain John W. Binks of the S. S. Olympic prepared last week to quit the sea after 45 years in steam & sail. Memorable indeed was the last westbound trip of the Olympic's florid, stocky skipper from Southampton to New York. Over the North Atlantic raged a winter's storm that brought many a vessel distress, twice sent the barometer from 30 in. to 28 in.-lowest Captain Binks had ever seen. So rough was New York's almost landlocked harbor that mail boats could take...