Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mannerheim drove a hard bargain. The two principles that had caused him to quit the previous May were accepted by the group in power: 1) no rapprochement with Germany; 2) retention of a strong Finnish Army. Mannerheim went to London and Paris, dickered for recognition. When he returned to Helsinki, Regent Svinhufvud resigned, Prince Friedrich Karl renounced his right to the throne, and Mannerheim became Regent of Finland...
...Quit To Be Honest...
...memories motivate many a Pippin canvas. One shows shell holes in the Champagne sector, bursting from the ground like monster morning glories. Another, End of the War-Starting Home, has grey-clad Germans holding up their hands in surrender, "because they had to quit before we could go home." Other ideas come to him from magazines, books, out of his head. A dozen people have bought his canvases, from Chester County socialites to Cinemactor Charles Laughton, who bought his Cabin in the Cotton...
Unlike many another industrial paternalist, George F. never foisted any form of company union on his workers. So in last week's election they simply had to vote for one union or none. One day 8,000 of them suddenly quit their machines, bowled past a few protesting foremen, paraded through the shops and streets with placards reading: "We're for George F."; "George F. Can't Be Wrong"; "Join Up-No Union." Protestant preachers, Catholic priests, Salvation Army chaplains had special prayer meetings for George F.'s recovery. Two days before election, word came that...
...Swarthy President Lawrence Mario Giannini of Bank of America, who thinks Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau is persecuting him, threatened that his institution would give up being a National bank, become a State bank unless Mr. Morgenthau quit hectoring him by sicking...