Word: quit
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Welles summoned Vichy's Ambassador Gaston Henri-Haye for a stern talk, later denied that the Free French seizure of St. Pierre and Miquelon (TIME, Jan. 5) would cause the U.S. to invoke the Declaration of Havana. He implied that, although the Free French could be told to quit the islands while relations with Vichy remained tense, the U.S. had no idea of telling them any such thing...
Next to Bernarr Macfadden (who "retired" from Macfadden Publications last year) the best-known Macfadden name is Charles Fulton Oursler, high-priced editor of Liberty. Last week Editor Oursler too was out. Liberty's new editor is 58-year-old Sheppard Butler, who quit the same job when Macfadden bought Liberty from Cousins Joe Patterson and Bertie McCormick in 1931. Editor Oursler, busy with a novel and a play, kept mum about the reasons for his departure and his 10,000 shares of Macfadden stock (market price: $1.25 per share...
...permanent commissions, left the Air Corps and went to China. Disgusted Claire Chennault openly protested the Army's failure to keep them: "If we were going into war and I were ordered to the front, I'd choose those two men to accompany me. . . ." Claire Chennault quit the Air Corps (officially he was retired for deafness), and became a consultant to the fledgling Chinese Air Force in 1937. Sergeants McDonald and Williamson served with him there, were with him in A.V.G. last week. Last year Claire Chennault came home and with President Roosevelt's consent began...
...foot, 25-year-old Correspondent Jacoby, transferred from TIME'S Chungking bureau to Manila, two weeks before the Jap attack took a half day off to marry beauteous Annalee Whitmore, a Stanford fellow student who quit a Hollywood script-writing job to follow him to China...
...Willys-Overland became the first automaker to quit autos, is now 100% converted to war goods...