Word: quit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME joined the Nazi school of anthropology? Under Races in the issue of Sept. 3, you classify the three dozen Hindus at Tempe, Ariz, with the Japanese as non-Aryan people. "Let every Japanese and Hindu quit the valley . . . or the Aryans would run them...
...Lindberghs left St. Louis for a jaunt west. At Wichita, Kans. the Colonel ground-looped on landing, cracked a wing-spar. From the factory in St. Louis was rushed another Monocoupe. In it the Lindberghs took off again. Over western Oklahoma the motor quit. The Lindberghs landed in a cornfield. Forced to "lay over" pending repairs, they went to a nearby farm house where Anne Lindbergh donned an apron, helped Mrs. Homer Aitkens cook roast beef & mashed potatoes. Said Farmer Aitkens afterward: "That fellow didn't talk much, but he sure packed away the victuals. . . . He was just...
...last year succeeded popular Sir Eric Drummond as League Secretary General, he became almost human. Secretary Avenol is a recluse who lives in a vast Geneva villa jammed with works of art and historical manuscripts he has picked up on his extensive travels. When Japan and then Germany quit the League, mournful M. Avenol prepared for the worst (TIME, Oct. 23). "The League has lost popularity and prestige," he croaked in one of his rare public statements, "and we know that the alternative is not between the League and a better system. It is between the League and chaos...
...Vice President Francis J. Gorman, a dark, stocky, ruddy-faced man, equally as well dressed as Leader McMahon, but more aggressive, was sent to Washington to prepare for the strike. Turning down overtures of the Cotton Textile Industrial Relations Board, he announced that 300,000 cotton textile workers would quit, bringing the whole industry to a sudden stop...
...Valley. In spite of Arizona's land laws which forbid aliens ineligible for U. S. citizenship from owning, leasing or farming land except as laborers, yellow men and brown were already farming 8,000 acres. It was time to put a stop to it! Let every Japanese and Hindu quit the valley by Saturday night or the Aryans would run them...