Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Behind this homely American trans formation was a homelier story of American politics. When West Virginia's overdressed, cadaverous Matthew Mansfield Neely quit the Senate to become Governor of the State last Jan. 12 at midnight, he exercised his new gubernatorial power to appoint as his successor his old friend Dr. Joseph Rosier, president of Fairmont State Teachers College. But Homer Adams Holt, who retired as Governor that same night, likewise claimed the right to make the appointment, naming his old friend Clarence Eugene Martin, ex-president of the American Bar Association...
Last week the Board looked around for help. Suggestions from Davis were that the Board be given the power to pick its own cases, that the Government quit giving defense contracts to manufacturers who have no collective bargaining agreements with their employes. Other suggestions: enlarge the Board, or create regional boards and let the overworked Dykstra Board function as a final supreme court in labor squabbles...
Once long before, he lived on dog biscuits rather than quit vaudeville. A raw bumpkin out of Sedalia, Mo., where he was born in 1903 and christened Lewis Delaney Offield, he went to Manhattan and got his first job-phone clerk in the New York Stock Exchange. It still gives him a solid pleasure to revisit the Exchange from time to time and gaze upon his former employment from the dignified visitors' gallery...
...stop New York workers from using their unemployment insurance for 13-week vacations, maternity leaves, etc., Governor Lehman last week signed a bill which forbids payments to workers who quit their jobs of their own free will...
...Philharmonic. Two autumns ago he was given a leave of absence after undergoing a brain tumor operation, which left him partly paralyzed and shambling-gaited. Last autumn he resigned. Soon he found another orchestra over which to wave his enormous, expressive hands: the New York City Symphony (WPA). He quit this job in January, after a row over whether to play Wagner's Siegfried Idyll in its original 15-instrument version (as he wished), or with a full string section...