Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...economic adviser, wispy-haired, squinty Lewis Williams Douglas, 47, onetime Arizona Congressman, onetime Budget Director. Lewis Douglas quit in protest against New Deal spending policies, became president of Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York, was a leading Democrat-for-Willkie in 1940. Last month he and President Roosevelt buried the hatchet, and Douglas went back as assistant Lend-Lease expediter. His new job will be all-important: to work closely with the Board of Economic Warfare, decide what ships should carry what materials where...
...Belleville, N.J., 600 girl members of the Chemical & Oil Workers Union threatened to quit if Isolantite, Inc. hired Negro girls. (A.F. of L.'s Frank Fenton retorted by threatening to remove the union's charter...
When Adolf Hitler marched into Soviet Russia, Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya quit the tenth grade of Moscow's 202nd Secondary School and joined a guerrilla band. Hair-cropped, in men's clothes, tall, 18-year-old Zoya proved an apt recruit: before the Germans captured her, she had cut a German field-telephone wire, fired German troop quarters, destroyed a 20-horse enemy stable...
...downtown Manhattan, about 30 City Newsmen held their wake. Among them were oldtimers who had covered the Triangle Waist Co. fire in 1911, the Wall Street explosion in 1920, the General Slocum disaster in 1904. On the wall a sign read: Profanity is vulgar and offensive. Why not quit it? In her cashier's cage Anna Daly Sullivan, only woman on the staff, swore through her tears...
Producer David Hempstead, 33, broad-browed and volatile, who broke the Hollywood ice with Kitty Foyle, quit his job as Utah's Corporation Commissioner to become an RKO script reader at $30 a week. Son of a well-fixed Salt Lake City attorney, Hempstead talked to Hollywood's elder statesmen from the start in the language they understood. "You're just exactly 150% wrong!" became his standard utterance...