Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week told Brazilians the one thing they most wanted to know: whether he would be a candidate in the forthcoming elections-Brazil's first free balloting in over ten years. Said Vargas: "I ask nothing for myself. I am not a candidate." He added that he would not quit the Presidency "either through violence or aggression" but would turn over his office "to my legally chosen successor." He did not say that he would refuse to be drafted...
...walls as "bulkheads," windows as "ports," floors as "decks," "reported aboard" and saw visitors "over the side." They had absorbed Navy tradition, had had a quick but thorough briefing on naval operations, naval weapons, history and current affairs. They were also imbued with the idea that if a WAVE quit, it was the same as a battlefront casualty...
Madeleine Carroll, who gave up Hollywood glamor in 1942-at the same time that her husband, ex-Cinemactor Stirling Hayden, joined the Marines-and has served overseas with a Red Cross nursing unit, decided to quit the screen for keeps. She explained that she would continue with the Red Cross until after the war, then planned to care for the 200 homeless children she has sheltered at her home outside Paris. British-born, beauteous Madeleine vowed that it "is to them and them alone that I will devote myself," added that she had always been "at heart more French than...
Blackface & Blacklists. A confirmed, dapper bachelor, Moss was born in Manhattan 57 years ago, of Austrian parents, quit school in the seventh grade. As a young man, he went into the wool-shrinking business with his brother Benjamin and with the future cinemagnate William Fox. As a young man he was also part of a blackface vaudeville team that played clubs and bazaars. Later the Moss brothers operated a chain of movie houses, and Paul Moss produced several Broadway plays. Rich at 30, Paul Moss retired, lapped up culture by "attending every lecture in town." He was no novice...
Earl Conrad is free, white and 36, a Hearstwhile reporter who became a Negro expert for Manhattan's race-conscious PM. Last week he quit PM to head the New York bureau and write a column for the New Dealing Negro Chicago Defender ("World's Greatest Weekly"), which already has a Japanese-American on its staff. Said Conrad: "No white paper is prepared to speak out on the Negro question. . . . There has been a conspiracy of silence. This is changing rapidly now, but I am apparently ahead of the trend...