Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last year General Almazan asked Reporter Frank Gibler, who had spent some 20 years shuttling between Mexico and the U. S., to be Almazanista liaison press agent between those two countries. After two months' work, Frank Gibler quit, alleging that instead of salary his boss was paying him valueless Almazan election bonds. The Government Labor Board of Conciliation and Arbitration, affectionately anxious to support Government Candidate Maximino Avila Camacho and harass his opponent Almazan, awarded Frank Gibler salary not only for the two months he claimed, but for the entire period of nearly eleven months from...
...guard positions, too, line coach Joe Nee finds himself fortunate. Hugh Lawrence, who quit early in the year, but was persuaded to don cleats again, has cinched one berth, and Doug DeCoster has the present option on the other one, although Pets Dorsey, and George Blanchard, whose shoulder injury is still keeping him out of action, can't be counted out of the scrap...
...Army," sighed You Foo Too, 'nothing I do lis right. Waddell's the matter with you? Why don't you quit Maupin around? Roll the Farrell, we're are going...
Will Yale and Harvard go the road of Chicago and abandon intercollegiate football? Miller of Yale says no, and Bill Bingham says no. But small-time football has a way of dying on its feet. Take Chicago, for instance. They were playing in Wabash's league before they quit...
...past eleven years-more than 3,000 scripts, 12,000 shows. Nearly all have followed the soap-opera pattern. Just Plain Bill, Backstage Wife, The Romance of Helen Trent are among those he has directed. For three years he provided ideas for The Gumps for Sidney Smith, quit soon after Smith died. He now writes his stuff so fast he can't remember any of his sequences. After listening to three-quarters of a Peter Quill episode of last year, he admitted he had no idea how it would turn...