Word: quit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vice President James David Mooney, in charge of exports, announced that Dr. Oliver Mitchell Wentworth Sprague, who quit Washington in a huff over President Roosevelt's money plans, had been retained as an adviser on foreign trade and exchange...
...Leavenworth Prison, Kans., Harvey Bailey and Albert Bates, kidnappers of Charles F. Urschel, were last week fed a pint of milk every four hours through a hose up the nose. Reason for the feeding: a hunger strike which they later quit. Reason for the hunger strike: solitary confinement. Reason for solitary confinement: refusal to reveal the hiding of $100,000 unrecovered ransom money...
...Havana to sing. Harold McCormick heard her there, appreciated her if the Cubans did not, invited her to sing with the Chicago Grand Opera which he was then backing. Her debut was to be in Zaza but at rehearsal Conductor Giuseppe Gino Marinuzzi threw down his baton, threatened to quit the company. McCormick stood up for Walska, demanded that she should be allowed to sing. But in the excitement Walska disappeared. Not once did she ever sing with the Chicago Opera...
...What U. S. Governor recently legalized cockfighting, had his house twice bombed, and quit...
Wamegonian. Sixty years ago Henry Chrysler used to drive a wood-burning locomotive across the plains of Kansas. Fifty-eight years ago a son was born to him in the town of Wamego, Kans. Walter Chrysler from boyhood was a wizard with machinery. At 1 7 he quit school to become an engine wiper at 5 ?an hour. He took a course in mechanical engineering from International Correspondence Schools. At 33 he had already driven through all the branches of railroad mechanics to the position of superintendent of motive power and machinery for the Chicago & Great Western. From that...