Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...resounding strike call read like a timetable. At 6 a.m. on Dec. 7 the five railway brotherhoods (engineers, firemen, conductors, trainmen, switchmen) would walk out on the Santa Fe, Rock Island, New York Central, Denver & Rio Grande, Katy, Pennsylvania, Southern Pacific, 44 other lines. Next day they would quit on the Chesapeake & Ohio, Chicago & North Western, the Gulf Coast lines, 40 others. By the third day, on 156 roads that carry passengers, food, coal, machinery and mail from New England to California, from Florida to Washington, not a wheel would turn...
...unprecedented in a war in which nations choose sides out of national interest rather than because of old friendships. The U.S. would probably continue to urge Britain to withhold a declaration of war, not so much because of friendship as because there is still a chance that Finland may quit the war when she has achieved her objectives: a boundary (TIME, Nov. 10) that will provide a good defense line in case of future Russian attack. If Finland does not quit and Germany loses the war, Finland must settle with Russia. If Germany wins, Finland must settle with Germany. Warned...
...fortnight ago the Conservatives began to pull up their socks. Leader Hanson announced that ill health would force him to quit his job. Last week, at a two-day conference in Ottawa, the Dominion's Conservative bigwigs chose as the new leader of their Party tall, patrician, 67-year-old Senator Arthur Meighen, a lawyer, financier and two-time (1920-21, 1926) Prime Minister of Canada...
Identical cables came to the Manhattan offices of Mutual, of NBC and also of CBS, two days after NBC and Mutual quit broadcasting from Berlin: "Your representative unjustifiably submitted complaints to you which he failed to present to the authorities of our house. In face of such behavior unable to cooperate with present representative...
Major Higginson attended Harvard himself, though he quit to study music in Vienna. In his spare time, he gave the money which built the Harvard Union and most of the athletic facilities of Soldiers Field. As a matter of fact, the University may almost call itself the godfather of the Boston Symphony, for Major Higginson is reported to have made up his mind to organize a symphony orchestra when he heard "how badly some Harvard musicians seem to play...