Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...coach of a badly disrupted political team, Bob Hannegan has a big job ahead. Whether or not he succeeds, Democrats now have, for the first time since Jim Farley quit in 1940, a chairman who likes...
...Manhattan's swarming Lower East Side, the youngest of three boys and a girl. His mother was a Neapolitan, and gave Jimmy her nose. His father, Barthelmeo was a French-Italian barber. As his father's helper, Jimmy lathered the faces of many a Tammany politician. He quit school around the seventh grade, ran errands, worked as a glasswasher, photo-engraver, took piano lessons. At 17 Jimmy got his first professional job as a pianist-in Diamond Tony's saloon at "Cooney Island." The skinny, homely piano pounder in a black turtleneck sweater did not drink much...
Bulgaria's shaky government got no rest from proddings by Germany's enemies to quit Germany's war. Latest poke came last week from Moscow's Pravda and the pen of Bulgar Georgi Dimitroff, onetime defendant at Naziism's Reichstag fire trial and secretary of the late unlamented Communist International (see p. 20). Warned Bulgar Dimitroff: "The national policy of Bulgaria, from the viewpoint of her future, demands loyal cooperation with her neighbors. . . . Only by breaking with Germany at once and assisting in the defeat of Germany will Bulgaria save herself from catastrophe...
...position of trying to secure recognition for a Government which he himself did not entirely recognize. An avowed and convincing liberal, he has lived 14 years in the U.S., and has no direct connection with any Bolivian party. Just after the La Paz revolt he quit his job as adviser to the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs. Last week he paced disconsolately around the orphaned Bolivian Embassy, not knowing what would happen to him and his three "keeds," or to his stormy country...
Busy on The Seventh Cross and assigned to 30 Seconds Over Tokyo, Tracy hopes to quit pictures as soon as possible. He wants to do war work and nothing else, preferably overseas. He has on hand a piece of music and narration by Aaron Copland, called Lincoln Portrait, which he would like to do for soldiers in contrast to the always welcome-but never varied-song, dance and horseplay. "Get a little serious with them," he says, "and I think they'll like...