Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Onetime cadet at the U.S. Naval Academy, he inherited $100,000, quit the Academy, decided against a legal career (his father and grandfather were New York judges), finally took a slow trip around the world. An actor next, he played in twelve flops in 18 months, quit to try radio. He was an announcer on a small local station when TIME discovered him. In 1932 he married Constance McKay, whom he had met when she was the heroine of a Broadway play in which he was the villain. They have an eight-year-old daughter, Nancy...
...director of the War Manpower Commission in New York State at $8,000 a year, ubiquitous Anna Marie Rosenberg, who will quit as regional director of the Social Security Board ($7,500), adviser to Nelson Rockefeller ($6,000), labor-relations consultant for R. H. Macy-Bamberger department stores ($20,000), and I. Miller shoe company...
...managed the baseball team. Classmate Robert Collier hired him to write advertising for Collier's. Nine years later, age 35, risen to business manager, he had built up the magazine's circulation, fattened its skinny advertising, and was making $50,000 a year. That was when he quit...
...Workers could not quit, and employers could not dismiss, without seven days' notice in writing...
Meanwhile the transit labor situation gets worse weekly. Never overpaid, trolley conductors and bus drivers are scampering off to war jobs in droves. In Washington a bus driver was in such a hurry to quit that he jerked to a stop at a traffic light, left a load of puzzled passengers stranded at the curb (TIME, Sept...