Word: quit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Floundering in the doldrums of Depression, small Belgium has had recourse to a threat: either France, leader of the World Gold Bloc, must come to Belgium's economic aid or Belgium will quit the gold standard so cherished by France...
First Day. First to drop out of the race were Wesley Smith and Jacqueline Cochran, sole U. S. woman entry. They quit at Bucharest. First plane into Athens was the Douglas D. C.2 flown by Pilots J. J. Moll and Koene D. Parmentier of Royal Dutch Airlines. Their longtime service on the Amsterdam-Batavia airway (three-fourths of the MacRobertson route) gave them a decided edge over other contestants...
...believed Jaeger quit to pave the the way for a settlement between the opposition pastors and Dr. Mueller, to which the counsellor was considered a serious obstacle...
Yesterday the reporters were able to accept this as merely an inevitable setback in the pursuit of news. After all, Casey's sudden coldness was news in itself. It was just a case of "Why dost thou act so strange, my Edward, and I hope to Heaven that you quit fooling by tomorrow...
...White Army and beat off the Bolsheviks. In May 1918, he rode into Helsingfors at the head of his victorious troops. Inevitably he was made Regent of the new Government, for then Finland had an idea it would turn to a monarchy. When it switched to a republic, he quit. When King Gustaf forced Finland to destroy the Aland forts, General Mannerheim was pained as a strategist, as a true monarchist and as a loyal Finn. Today he lives, as becomes a Grand Old Man, quietly in Helsingfors with his Russian wife, accepting honorary figurehead positions...