Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...touring U.S. Congressmen stopped off at Belgrade for a chat with chesty Marshal Josip Broz-Tito, Yugoslavia's Kremlin-backed strong man. Was it true, asked Republicans Karl Mundt and Frances Bolton, that Dr. Ivan Subasich had quit his job? Why yes, said the Marshal, adding that he hoped he could talk the handsome Foreign Minister out of leaving...
...with Dr. Subasich last week went Juraj Sutej, Minister without Portfolio. Since 69-year-old Vice Premier Milan Grol had already quit, the regime was now thoroughly dominated by Tito's men who had swallowed the exile government...
When Earle ("Greasy") Neale quit as Yale's football brains in 1940, the pitiful Philadelphia (pro) Eagles seemed beyond human help. Not so, thought Greasy Neale, who had worked many a minor miracle in his earlier coaching days.* With high hopes but no real prospects, Greasy took over the inelegant Eagles. By last year he had made them one of the top teams in the National League...
...present - these are sad times for many people who have suffered war losses"). Then, running down the First Lady's social list, she announced that Mrs. Truman would attend a tea on Oct. 12 given by the Daughters of the American Revolution. In 1939 Mrs. Roosevelt had quit the D.A.R. because it refused to let Negro Contralto Marian Anderson sing in the Society's Constitution Hall; now the D.A.R. was embroiled in a similar controversy with publicity-seeking Negro Pianist Hazel Scott. But the girls tactfully asked no questions about Mrs. Truman's racial opinions...
Banker Giannini has always said he would quit when his bank became the world's greatest. But last week A. P., who had formally "retired" again last spring, showed no signs of quitting. Instead, he was off on a three-month tour of Europe to see about some foreign loans...