Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reorganization of trucking on the Burma Road. Dan Arnstein and two associates, M. F. Hellman and H. C. Davis, set off to take over. Mr. Arnstein's chief regret: that he could not take his taxi drivers with him to Burma. Moaned he: "Half the boys wanted to quit and go with me; the boys don't want to get paid for it-all they want is excitement...
...When an irate alumnus offered Hoppy $50,000 if he would fire a professor who had denounced the conduct of the Sacco-Vanzetti trial by Judge Webster Thayer (a Dartmouth man), Hoppy told the professor about it. The professor fumed. Said Hoppy: "Don't get excited. If you quit, I will too, and we'll split...
Carl Sandburg (at University of North Carolina): "A famous aviator has quit flying and taken to talking. Thirteen years ago his picture was hung on college walls, a symbol of youth ready to risk and adventure for the sake of great achievement. Now all of a sudden that same daring aviator has begun to talk the language of comfort and safety first and of breakfast at home with mother...
Married. Wealthy Lucy Cotton Thomas Ament Hann Magraw, 49; for the second time to her fifth husband, Georgian Prince Vladimir Eristavi-Tchitcherine, 59; in a Russian Orthodox ceremony in Manhattan (they had a civil ceremony May 4 in Key West). A onetime actress, she quit the stage in 1924 to wed aging Publisher Edward R. Thomas, inherited a slice of his reputed $27,000,000 fortune when he died in 1926. Since then she has married and divorced Hoover-aide Lytton Gray Ament, Harvard Tackle Charles Hann Jr., Hotelman William M. Magraw...
...Connecticut (where one out of every three farmhands has quit) employment services began registering high-school and college students for summer farm work. Many an Illinois farmer harvested his asparagus crop by hiring high-school children in their spare hours. In Eatonton and some other Georgia towns, police rounded up street loafers, gave them their choice of going to work on farms or to jail. Moaned one farmer: "I'm begging now for the same sorry type of workers I would have run off my farm three years...