Word: quit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After three years at the University of Kansas, Herbert Pettey quit to take a job in the ready-mixed concrete company of Democratic Boss Tom Pendergast of Kansas City, Mo. Later he worked for MGM pictures and Radio Corp. of America. During the 1932 campaign, Mr. Pettey managed the radio work for the Democratic National Committee. When the Democrats came into power grateful Chairman Farley made him secretary to the Radio Commission. In addition, the Herald Tribune reported, with a letter from "General" Farley to prove it, Secretary Pettey, while drawing Federal pay, retained his job as No. 1 radio...
...pusfilled whitlow on the Prime Minister's finger. When this had been lanced and half a fingernail removed, Lord Horder insisted on going thoroughly over his patient. The eyes were indeed weak; general condition, rundown. Meekly James Ramsay MacDonald assented when Lord Horder told him he must positively quit London at once without waiting for Parliament to rise in August...
...Object: to "graduate" small boy carriers without cutting off their income. 3) All boys under 16 are limited to three hours work per day on school days, four hours on other days. 4) Delivery boys may start at 6 a. m. selling boys at 7 a. m. All must quit by 7 p. m. in winter, 8 p. m. in summer. 5) Every boy must carry a permit or badge authorized by the Secretary of Labor...
Farmers in eastern Illinois quit working their powdery fields. Around Rock Island the oat crop was conceded to be destroyed and cattle were let in to munch on what was left. Five hundred farmers in three Wisconsin counties rounded up 26,000 head of half starved cattle, loaded them on stock cars, shipped them north to rented fields in the Lake Superior region. At Kansas City, George E. Farrell of AAA estimated that the wheat crop was being abandoned at the rate of 1,000,000 bu. a day, that growers were losing $1,000,000 daily. On the Chicago...
...Vagabond had long since quit his lonely vigil high up amid Mem Hall's cobwebs and dust. The atmosphere there was stifling--stifling, and this was spring. It was spring. But the Vagabond had seen many springs and spring was always the same...