Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brandwag, proved in a series of well-publicized trials that its leaders got both ideas and money from a Nazi consul in Portuguese East Africa, only 400-odd miles from Johannesburg. Always a cagey fighter, Smuts did not crack down on the Brandwag rank & file, instead let them quit the organization while the quitting was good. He flew in a loaded bomber to the war zone in the Sudan just to show his people how near it was. This, on top of the smothering of Holland, suggested to Afrikanders that World War II was their...
After 35 years as a member of New Jersey's Supreme Court, Justice Thomas Whitaker Trenchard, 77, who presided with memorably magisterial dignity over the turbulent trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, retired, saying: "Well, I figure I'm entitled to quit...
...Union's troubles had only begun. Two years ago it was expelled from the New York City Central Trades and Labor Council for aiding C. I. O. unions. Then a group of Columbia professors quit a college branch of the Union because it was too Red. Last month the A. F. of T.'s executive council, an anti-Stalinist group elected at the Federation's last convention, made nine charges of misbehavior against Local 5, ordered it to show cause this month why it should not be expelled. One of the charges: "tactics and practices inimical...
...through the gloom, eating while they worked, shuffling home after their eight hours to their ugly homes in Duquesne, Clairton, Homestead, on the cliffs of Pittsburgh's South Side. The grimy little men and their doings were far less spectacular than the infernal mills. But if the men quit, so would the white-hot flow of steel...
...Choate) consists of amiable horseplay about -a crisis which strikes a trapeze act while they are quartered in a horse doctor's house during a Brooklyn carnival run. A spindly graduate student of Columbia University falls in love with the troupe's ingenue and she threatens to quit the act for culture and her bookworm, which would deprive the brainless aerialists of their most attractive piece of ignorance...