Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...your issue of June 17, you say that "Liberals Lewis Mumford and Waldo Frank quit The New Republic after 13 years as contributing editors, criticizing the do-nothing policy of the magazine (although The New Republic afterwards plumped for aid to the Allies...
...town with Wendell Willkie came the three original members of the For-Willkie-Before-May-11-1940-club : 1) Russell ("Mitch") Davenport, gaunt, earnest journalist-philosopher who quit his job as managing editor of FORTUNE to devote himself to this man; 2) Oren Root Jr., young New York law clerk, who formed a Willkie-For-President club on his own hook and $150; 3) Charlton MacVeagh, a G.0.P. contact man who drafted himself...
Last week Spanish fishermen quit working off the Irish coast because they saw too many U-boats to suit them. One torpedoed the 13,950-ton British merchant-cruiser Andania...
Doctor Suominen once ran 100 miles from Chicago to Milwaukee (stopping only for orange juice), once ran 1,000 miles in one of C. C. Pyle's famed "bunion Derbies." But last week, after six hours, the hot pavement had so blistered his feet that he had to quit with only six more miles to go. Duke, still going strong, won by default...
When Swarthmore's beloved President Frank Aydelotte announced last autumn that he would quit to become director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, it was a good bet that he would pick his own successor. Swarthmore's faculty, alumni and trustees last week elected as president Dr. Aydelotte's assistant, Professor John William Nason...