Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They are full of doubts about their leadership. People have been cynical about officeholders for years, but in peacetime they merely talked about it casually; after all, it didn't make a great deal of difference. They always believed that when the chips were down the leaders would quit playing politics and get in there and pitch. But the chips are down now and the shenanigans continue, from high places on down. So the people say: "The hell with it. I'm going to get mine while the getting is good...
...asks him to do. He'll cut in two what he eats for breakfast. So will all the other common men. They want somebody in Washington, preferably Roosevelt, to outline a program for everyone and apply it. They want Roosevelt, whom most of them still like 100%, to quit suggesting that drastic steps may have to be taken, and actually to take those drastic steps -to tell Phil Murray, William Green, the spokesmen for the farm groups and all the other minority outfits, to go to the devil...
...people want Washington to quit treating them as if they were children subject to tantrums -to give them the truth, tell them the chips are down and that from now on it's guns. Not guns and butter, just guns...
Marriage Revealed. Cinemactress Madeleine Carroll, 36; and seafaring ex-Cinemactor Stirling Hayden, 26; three months ago; in an undisclosed New England town. Her first husband was Captain Philip Astley, a London real-estate broker, whom she divorced in 1939. Hayden, who quit Hollywood after a brief career, said his wife would soon quit...
...Gordon believes that the organized parents and educators of the U.S. can make children's radio grow up and quit playing cops & robbers. The time is at hand, she says, for a few pleasant changes. She suggests : >- More time for children's programs. (Totalitarian countries, according to her figures, devote 75% of all radio time to children; the U.S., between...