Word: quit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Besides investigators Mr. Hopkins keeps busy a set of accountants who have set up books for state relief and CWA projects, supply him with complete reports of every cent spent in every state. He was quite candid in speaking of graft to Congressional inquirers: "On work relief we may have an occasional padded payroll. . . . I think in the main [Civil Works projects] are three or four times as good as the projects under relief. . . . Political interference has been a difficulty. I would not say it is serious but it has been a difficulty. I have quit getting mad about...
...lack of opponents. Softspoken, sleek-haired, he coaches smooth and deceptive team play, foxy shifts from man-to-man to zone defenses. In spare time he studies sculpture, has made three figures. Says he: "I mold my players just like I mold my clay." East. In 1908 Harvard quit the Eastern Intercollegiate League in a huff. This season it returned, and so far has lost every conference game played. Princeton, an early favorite, slumped after the Christmas holidays. Most of its first-stringers are seniors playing their third season and apparently bored with the game. Tied for first place...
...Jean Chiappe had many friends. Blue-caped policemen talked of a protest meeting in sympathy, and Minister of War Jean Fabry and Finance Minister Francois Piétri quit the Cabinet. There was more to their resignation than sympathy for Jean Chiappe. As representatives of the Right they had just been reprimanded by their respective parties for accepting posts in a Daladier Cabinet. Premier Daladier was forced to replace them with Paul-Boncour in the War office and Mayor Paul Marchandeau of Rheims at the Treasury. This put the same old coalition of Socialists and Radical-Socialists back in power...
Stoutly the researchers defended their subjects as average citizens, in no sense "down-&-outers." Records of employed men tallied closely with those of the jobless. Why had they quit? After his survey of clerks trying to become executives; laborers, engineers; mechanics, accountants. Professor Paterson observed: "At the bottom of the sea . . . sharks perhaps are busy organizing the suckers into schools for the purpose of teaching them to become flying fish...
Ohio State's student body and "downtown coaches" made things too unpleasant for Coach Sam Willaman, who last week quit, signed with Western Reserve. Duquesne's Elmer Layden last week formally took over at Notre Dame, where he succeeds Heartly ("Hunk") Anderson. To succeed him as director of athletics, Duquesne got Christy Flanagan, former Notre Dame back, lately assistant coach at Navy...