Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Will White quit the University of Kansas in his senior year to work as printer on the El Dorado, Kans. Republican., He moved to Kansas City, where he reported for the Journal, which he left in 1892 because he felt it was slipping (it folded in 1942). In Kansas City he met and married Sallie Lindsay, a school teacher (their soth anniversary: this coming April 27). Then, in 1895, he borrowed $3,000, bought the Emporia Gazette...
...London. Their fiery oratory and skillful leadership rooted socialism in the English working classes. Ben Tillett ran away from home at eight, worked in a brick factory and a circus, then went to sea, where a Scottish mate taught him to read and write. After a few voyages he quit the Navy to become a shoemaker, then a warehouse hand, in London's East End. Before he was 30 he promoted the Dock, Wharf, Riverside and General Workers' Union. Soon he acquired John Burns as a partner. In 1889 the two organized the famous 13-week Dockers...
...curious how this feeling communicated itself. Except for the hard knot which is inside some men, courage is largely the desire to show other men that you have it. And so, in a large group, when a majority have somehow signaled to each other a willingness to quit acting, it is very hard indeed not to quit. The only way to avoid it is to be put to shame by a small group of men to whom this acting is life itself, and who refuse to quit; or by a naturally courageous man doing a brave deed...
Sears' gift to the university was engineered by U.C.'s kinetic Vice President William Benton. Bill Benton is famed in the advertising world as the onetime chairman of Benton & Bowles and the man who said he would make a fortune and quit-and did. He came by his yearning for learning naturally: both his father and his mother were university professors. He sees the Britannica as a logical adjunct to U.C., which has always had a flair for combining scholarship with good publicity...
...whole thing began in 1940 after Stanley had quit Dartmouth, and started looking for something to do. With Father Floyd's help he picked up a twelve-year-old semi-dormant investment trust, changed the name to Great American Industries, bought an outfit called Virginia Rubatex Corp., which makes hard & soft cellular rubber for insulation, gaskets, seat cushions, pontoons, etc. The rubber business flourished but young Odium wanted more diversification, found it in venerable Ward La France Truck Corp., one of the biggest U.S. makers of fire engines and custom-built, heavy-duty trucks. With these...