Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this was grim news for France, there was one glimmer of hope in it. The more Vichy succumbs to Germany, the more tenuous becomes its hold on the man charged with holding its empire together: General Maxime Weygand. Ever since October 1940, when he quit France for the North African command, wiry Septuagenarian Weygand has kept observers guessing. Repeatedly he has been accused of coolness to Vichy, repeatedly he has sounded off in ringing statements of loyalty. Three times the Germans have tried to force his removal from command of the most potent remnant of the once mighty armies...
...Tobin's power. They fought against raising Dan Tobin's salary from $20,000 to $30,000 a year. Mr. Tobin, who had stood all he could, charged after the Dunnes again, expulsion in his eye. But before they could be kicked out of the union, they quit, went over to C.I.O. (TIME, June 23). Alma Denny Lewis, brother of John and head of the C.I.O. construction workers, took them in. With the possibility of other defections among his locals all through the Northwest, Dan Tobin faced a crisis...
...Chicago, shortly after Showman Mike (Streets of Paris') Todd quit the world's biggest theater-restaurant, seating 3,700 (TIME, Jan. 6), it was closed by the Chicago police. Reported reason: it had fallen into the hands of Chicago's Nitti gang, who were converting it from a family-style resort into a vast honkytonk...
...probably well aware that his fellow-traveling had done him no good with the brass hats: "The present policy of the War Office starves the Home Guard of manpower and materials and treats as relatively unimportant all those ideas of modern-training tactics that I have been advocating." He quit...
Having journeyed nearly a million miles to make some 200 one-reel travelogues of exotic spots since 1928, Traveloguist FitzPatrick's wanderings have been limited by World War II. The Voice will fill his 1941 quota of twelve Talks within the boundaries of the U.S. and Canada, then quit. Last week he and his crew prepared to do North Carolina...