Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When he was 13 his father died. Al quit St. James Parochial School to go to work. He could hardly read the printed word. But by the time he was 19 he was earning high wages-$12 a week-at the Fulton Fish Market. Tom Foley, a Tammany district leader, made young Al his lieutenant. When he was 30, Foley got him elected to the state legislature...
...campaigned for Roosevelt in 1932, but by 1936 he could no longer contain his bitterness. He invented the term "alphabet soup" to describe the plethora of New Deal agencies, spoke for Alf Landon, and warned the U.S. sarcastically that "You can't lick Santa Claus." Then he quit politics. His last years were quiet but busy. He became Honorary Curator of the Bronx Zoo, president of the long-empty Empire State Building, a director of a half-dozen corporations. He was one of the nation's great Roman Catholic laymen, and in 1937 he visited the Vatican...
...Bannockburn, where he grows acres of onions, Mitchell Frederick ("Mitch") Hepburn once more broke out his battle flag. Last week Canada's most unpredict able politician returned to the Liberal fold he left two years ago, when he quit as Ontario's Premier and abandoned his Party, thus contributing to its defeat...
...last the bargain-one of the strangest of the war-was struck: firing would cease at 6 p.m. Tuesday. The Germans would have twelve hours to de-mine the road. The civilians would have 36 hours to quit the town. Then the Germans would have twelve hours more to blow up bridges and relay their mines. After that the battle would be resumed...
...break came last week in the fog of rumor which has swirled about the Fisher Brothers since they quit General Motors (TiME, Aug. 14). The Brothers filed incorporation papers in Lansing, Mich, for two new companies, Fisher Brothers, Inc. and Fisher Motor Car Co. (They had previously incorporated in Delaware.) The companies, each of which has 1,000 shares of no par common stock, declared their purpose to design, manufacture, sell, repair and deal in airplanes, automobiles and "any & all automotive products." As usual, the Fishers kept their actual plans to themselves. Detroit's guess: the Fisher plans...