Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Editor Taylor's retirement was announced, his bitter rival, Editor Ben Reese of the Post-Dispatch, was the first to telephone his congratulations on a magnificent record. He concluded: "I can't say that I'm sorry to see you quit, however. So far as the Post-Dispatch is concerned you've been Public Enemy...
Fact No. 1. The main fact was simple enough. Rudolf Hess, only two places removed from the leadership of Germany, had quit Germany under his own steam and gone to the enemy country, where he was imprisoned. In all the howling vortex of dope-stories, nut-stories, crackpot theorizing, official and amateur speculation that the Hess flight evoked, only the New York World-Telegram affected to doubt Fact No. 1. The Telegram hired a series of detective storytellers to mastermind the Hess Case. One, Lee Wright of Publishers Simon & Schuster, opined that Hess wasn't Hess...
Darlan's political intrigues have brought him few if any friends among France's naval aristocracy, which, by tradition at least, keeps its mind on warships. He has a wife, as retiring as the Admiral is not, and a son, Alain, who recently quit the Navy, where he had been a code officer, in favor of the insurance business. Social superiors of Darlan like to call attention to his French-bourgeois habit of wearing a wing collar, which has earned him the nickname of "The Tax Collector." But all this the Admiral can and does ignore...
When Dr. Morley quit the Post last October to take his place at Haverford, newsmen whispered that he had disagreed with Publisher Eugene Meyer over U.S. policy and the war. His friends explained that he was no isolationist, but that Haverford's peace-loving Quakers liked his scrupulously neutral attitude...
...week Dr. Hotson admitted that "the immediate cause" of his resignation "was a question of salary." But, said he, "an element that contributed largely to my decision was my disagreement with the administration over . . . academic freedom." Dr. Reitzel gave his version of the "disagreement" that led both professors to quit...