Word: quit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Columbia listed 595; University of Wisconsin, 884; University of Minnesota, 1,158. Harvard turned the Government's offer down flat. Richest university in the land, it needed no Federal handout. Yale's conscience stuck at the required guarantee that each student aided would have to quit college unless the relief funds were given him. Explained Dean Clarence Whittlesey Mendell: "We felt that in signing this we would possibly be making a dishonest statement...
...guiding hand of Republican State Chairman Louis B. Mayer (MGM), the cinema industry was turning out Stop-Sinclair "news-reels," had even assessed many of its stars for Merriam campaign funds. A united front against Sinclairism was effected by the three big Los Angeles papers, which simply quit reporting news of EPIC and its sponsor. A flood of news-photographs was released locally and to the nation to prove that EPIC was luring an army of bums to California. Their authenticity became extremely questionable when one Los Angeles newspaper went so far as to print a picture which the cinema...
...estimate has been accepted by the Government, all petroleum called for therein must be imported "irrespective of business conditions." Thus a huge oil reserve for the Japanese Navy must be piled up and maintained by oilmen of prospective enemy countries at their own expense-unless they prefer to quit doing business in Japan...
Instead of obeying, Yakouba renounced the Church, dressed himself like a native and turned fisherman. Said he to Biographer Seabrook: "I quit the Church because I didn't want to leave Timbuctoo and didn't want to give up women." A strapping Negress, Salama, gave him shelter, persuaded him not to be so melodramatic in his renunciation...
Died. Rt. Rev. Charles Arthur ("Battling Charlie") Nelson, 44, bishop of Long Island in the United Christian Church of America (577 members); of cerebral hemorrhage; in Long Island City. Son of a Long Island City saloon keeper, he entered the prize ring, quit it when an opponent frightened him by remaining long unconscious after being felled...