Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Resignations and reversals swept the U. S. 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); Assistant Secretary of State Adolf Berle resigned from the Lawyers Guild because "It is now obvious that the present management of the Guild is not prepared to take any stand which conflicts with the Communist Party line." There was a greater reversal when 30 educators, writers, lawyers, businessmen joined in a statement urging that...
...them. But what was the ultimate U. S. objective? And how far was it determined to go? Said General Motors Vice President James David Mooney: "If we intend to go to war, then we ought to publish the conditions that will provoke us into the war. We ought to quit telling the world that we won't fight under any circumstances. . . . Americans have too proud a tradition as fighters to endure a national policy that would brand Americans as men who run away from anything...
Every morning at 8, Mr. Stettinius strode into the lobby of Washington's stately, white-marble Federal Reserve Building, hurried upstairs to a cool office. Usually he did not leave before 10 p.m. Mr. Stettinius last week quit his $100,000 a-year chairmanship of U. S. Steel to take the payless, possibly thankless job of supplying the raw materials for steeling the U. S. In an identical upstairs office sat Mr. Knudsen, who was last week given leave of absence from the presidency of General Motors Corp., to see that finished planes, guns, uniforms, shells, etc., are turned...
...Year's Day, 1939, the Italian Government told him to quit...
...German Immigrant Louis Blaustein landed in New York with 50? in his pocket, lent it to a needy cousin, headed for Baltimore. From a one-horse wagon he peddled cans of kerosene, soon got a job with John D. Rockefeller's up-&-coming Standard Oil Co. When he quit to go into business himself in 1910, he was rich enough to buy a one-horse tank wagon, and sell gasoline from the rear end while his son Jacob drove...