Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME [June 4] "West Coast shipyard workers quit their jobs in droves." One reason is because an overzealous press scares the shipyard worker with its unnecessary stories about what is going to happen to shipyards and shipyard workers...
Message to Tokyo. Not even optimists inferred from this new phenomenon that the enemy would quit when he saw his situation was hopeless. It was already hopeless and he did not quit. But many a soldier and sailor was ready to say that, at least to a few Japs, the U.S. had managed to communicate a vital message: surrender does not mean extinction, or even the loss of soldierly honor...
Harry Hopkins did not plan to quit work altogether. He promptly accepted the quasi-public position of czar of New York's garment industry, a well-paid ($25,000) job which requires no more attention than it got from his predecessor, New York City's onetime playboy Mayor Jimmy Walker...
Back to the Farm. Two days after Hopkins quit, Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. hurried to the White House. Worried Henry Morgenthau wanted to know where he stood with the new boss. He demanded a presidential letter asking him to stay on until V-J day. Harry Truman replied that he would be glad to deny all the rumors-but no letter. That was not good enough for sensitive Henry Morgenthau. In that case, the President told him, his resignation would be accepted immediately. There was no outward bitterness; the exchange of letters was cordial...
Eichelberger flies to his army's shows in an ancient B-17 fitted up for staff use. A man of sometimes reckless courage, he has decided lately to quit sticking his neck out so often-now that he has served 40 years in the Army and sees the war's end in sight. He wants to be sure to see Tokyo...