Word: quit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White House gentleman what answered de phone up there got mad and said, 'Quit calling de President,' but I keeps on and finally gets...
...followers, reported him dead a score of times but never laid hands on him. U. S. newspapers uniformly called him "bandit." But what Sandino wanted, and what he finally got in January 1933, was the withdrawal of all U. S. Marines from Nicaragua. When they left, he quit fighting and took over a large part of the Department of Segovia for his men. His old friend Sacasa, elected President, promised him $1,000 a month to get his farms and mines started. Sandino, a great hater, still had one open enemy, General Moncada. And Moncada's nephew is General...
...have traded at the stores of James Butler. The square-headed Irish immigrant from the farms of Kilkenny started the first unit by accident. A few years before the Cleveland inaugural Jim Butler struck up an acquaintance with his landlady's son. Patrick J. O'Connor had quit reporting for the New York Herald to work in a grocery store. But he wanted a store of his own. With $2,000, his total savings since leaving Ireland, Jim Butler staked O'Connor. They opened a store on Second Avenue, which O'Connor managed while Jim Butler...
...72nd birthday Charles Michael Schwab revealed that he was "lightening his load" by retiring as president of Manhattan's Whist Club and "only spending several hours a day" as board chairman of Bethlehem Steel. "But I'm not through playing bridge nor have I quit the Bethlehem Steel Co." said he. "I will always get a kick out of cards, and as for the Bethlehem Company-that is my monument...
...literary drudgeries was to report the debates in Parliament for a London magazine. Though he visited the House only once, often made up the speeches entire, readers liked them, called for more. When he discovered that his reports were fooling the public into taking them as genuine, Johnson quit...