Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pretty deep subject. I'm a Republican myself." Down from Vancouver, B. C. flew George Milburn, her son, convinced that the time was not ripe for his mother and Greenbackery to sweep the U. S. On second thought last week, the only woman Presidential candidate quit...
Like many Irishmen, many Hindus believe that Britain's poison is their meat. With German hemlock close to British lips last week, India seemed to have quit talking about dominion status as the price of docility. The London Times's Simla correspondent anxiously reported: "An offer of full freedom within the British Commonwealth no longer meets the [Indian National] Congress case, which . . . asks for complete independence outside the orbit of the British Commonwealth...
...Russians out of Finland in 1918. Five years later he turned up in Mexico, fought on the losing side of a revolution, fled to the U. S. Battle-hardened at 20, he became successively a mechanic in Galveston, Tex., a chauffeur in Manhattan. Last December he smelled powder again, quit his job, went off to fight the Russians in Finland once more. Last week he was back with a story...
...sloth, General Marshall at week's end shook Army traditionalists to the heels of their shiny boots. He announced that the Army is not only going to have more tanks and other armored vehicles, but is going to quit smothering them in the infantry and cavalry. His plan calls for a corps of two mechanized divisions, to be set up as a new and separate...
Danny Gleason was orphaned at 12, quit school after the grades, got a job as a New York policeman, spent seven long years shunting traffic daytimes, studying hard for his high-school diploma at night. In 1932 the Congregation of Holy Cross accepted his vocation, sent him to Notre Dame. After eight years of near-top marks in college and seminary, he was finally ordained. Last week, from Manhattan's St. Patrick's Cathedral, where they had just heard the Rev. Daniel Maria Gleason, C.S.C., sing his first High Mass, trooped 3,500 blue-uniformed cops...