Word: quit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...After 136 years in business, Roosevelt & Son quit the security business...
Last summer a trained nurse named Kathleen E. Hunt quit her job with the Arthur Sunshine Home & Kindergarten for Blind Babies. This is a private institution at Summit, N. J., taking in young blind boarders from New Jersey, New York, Delaware. Pennsylvania, Maryland, Tennessee and Rhode Island. When Miss Hunt left, the institution contained about 40 children, none over twelve. No If ger could she endive, she complained to the New Jersey Commission for the Blind, the cruel ways in which- Superintendent Gladys M. Kraeuter let her blind wards be punished. Miss Hunt also carried her story...
...Motte Sage, giving exhibitions of hypnotism. This led to The Philosophy of Personal Influence, distributed by mail from Rochester, which offered courses in hypnotism, and earned him & associates $1,500,000 before postal inspectors, suspecting fraud, forced the "New York Institute of Science" to quit. Another Rochester enterprise called the New York Institute of Physicians & Surgeons sold cure-alls called" "Vitaopathy"' in the U. S.. "Radiopathy" in Mexico and South America. At a certain hour of certain days Radiopathy customers took certain pills while staring into the photographed eyes of one of the Institute's professors...
...quit the publishing business to organize the State Department of Agriculture for Montana. Then the Illinois Agricultural Association plucked him out of Helena, made him director of grain marketing at Chicago. There he fell in with George Peek's theories of agricultural legislation and together they fought for the McNary-Haugen bill. When Mr. Peek, disgusted with the G. O. P.'s nomination of Herbert Hoover in 1928, turned Democrat, Chester Davis beamed. He was already vice chairman of the Smith Independent Organizations Committee, chief thumper for the Brown Derby among dirt farmers. After the Hoover landslide they...
Frederick Henry Prince is generally regarded as New England's richest citizen and Boston's crustiest celebrity. Hard-bitten son of a Democratic Boston mayor, he quit Harvard to enter the brokerage business, married the daughter of a wealthy waterworks builder, quickly became one of State Street's most spectacular figures. His firm of F. H. Prince &; Co. installed the first stockticker in Boston. In the 1890's he developed Chicago Junction Railway, which he later leased for 99 years to New York Central for an annual rental of $2,000,000. and bought up Chicago...