Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They had also come to bury, but not to praise, outgoing Chairman Hugh Scott, who had quit before he could be thrown out (TIME, Aug. 1). Scott, a faithful workman in 86-year-old Joe Grundy's Pennsylvania political machine, had gotten the job as part of the Pennsylvania Deal which gave the nomination to Dewey at Philadelphia. Now he made one final plea for party unity. "For 17 years, we've been taking in each other's washing without enough outside business to break even . . ." It was now a choice, said Scott, between Republican revival...
Next day Stefan quit his job and the union sent its men back to work. Said his brother, bitterly: "I had hoped to show Eugene our American heart and our American way of living. I have been here for 37 years and I never saw anything like this...
...majors' most distinguished record holder: Outfielder Tyrus Raymond Cobb, who played in 3,033 games in 24 years, quit at 41 with a record lifetime batting average of .367, a record of 892 stolen bases. * Since 1944, director of sandlot baseball for the New York Journal-American...
...Orleans of jazzu. At 16, he landed with a boy's band employed by a rich eel merchant to drum up business. By 1925, Hattori was so expert on flute and oboe that the Osaka Symphony Orchestra hired him. But jazz looked more profitable, and Hattori quit the symphony to organize the most famous of early Jap jazzbands, "Hattori and His Manila Red-Hot Stompers...
...rush, she went to Miami to visit her aunt. A nightclub owner heard her singing with the rest of her party, offered her a job. A scared 17, she answered: "I have to go back to work." But work at the candy shop was never the same again. Mindy quit, and her parents gave her a year to get somewhere in show business...