Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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West Coast shipyard workers quit their jobs in droves...
...Navy was concerned, now was the worst possible time for a man to quit. With the quickening of the war in the Pacific, the greatest need was for rapid ship repair. The Navy no longer made any bones about it: its ships were taking punishment from desperate Jap bombers and Kamikaze planes. One day last week Fleet Admiral Nimitz admitted damage to eleven of his light naval units in the space of 18 hours...
...peace. This week 1,100 delegates of the Labor Party, biggest (170 seats) opposition group in Parliament, met at Blackpool. The chief question before them was: whether to accept Prime Minister Winston Churchill's invitation to stay in the Government until the Japanese war is won-or to quit the coalition forthwith. The answer was emphatic. The conference voted unanimously to quit. Party wiseacres promptly predicted that Mr. Churchill would ask the King to dissolve Parliament and call a general election, probably in July...
...Raymond M. Cook, a veteran of 20 years of teaching and school administration in Chicago. Turned down for a principal's certificate six years earlier because he was "disloyal," Cook this time was transferred to a third grade post at $1,500 cut in salary. Last year he quit to go to work in a war plant...
...Early walked out on a reputed $20,000-a-year job (as Washington representative of Paramount-Publix Corp. and Paramount News) to become Franklin D. Roosevelt's press secretary. During his twelve years in that post he won fame at financial sacrifice. Every time he had wanted to quit to take one of a dozen business offers, FDR had talked him out of it. So he continued to draw the authorized $10,000 a year...