Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...budgets, constant wrangling of the socialite directors or the insubordination among the musicians had made life unbearable. The last conductor to get "the Seattle treatment," ruddy-faced Carl Bricken, 49, survived a petition signed by 50-odd members of the orchestra asking that he be sacked, but he finally quit on his own last January...
...adviser to Franklin Roosevelt at Yalta. He had been secretary of the Dumbarton Oaks and San Francisco conferences at which the United Nations ras brought to being. Then he had quit to become president (at $20,000 a year) of the $10 million Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in New York (he said that John Foster Dulles had urged him to take that...
Sunday Punch. For 34 years, until he quit in 1942 after a quarrel with the Astors, hawk-nosed Editor J. L. Garvin had thrust his greatness upon the Observer and thumped British breakfast tables with his stubborn leaders, often three or four columns long. "The English Sunday," said a rival, "would be incomplete without his weekly thunderstorm." When Garvin parted with the Astors, Fleet Streeters bet that the Observer would collapse. But today, a team rather than a one-man show, the Observer is a sounder paper, if a less disturbing...
...makes the heart beat is short (5 ft. 5 in.), impish Louie Seltzer, just starting his 21st year as boss of the Press. Seltzer was born in a cottage back of a Cleveland firehouse, the son of Charles Alden Seltzer, an ex-cowpuncher who wrote westerns. Louis quit school at 10 to be a copy boy on the late Leader, became a cub reporter at 18. One day a new building collapsed in downtown Cleveland. Down three flights of stairs from the old Press city room scampered Seltzer on his way to the scene. On a landing he caromed into...
...never stopped running. A year after he ran into the boss, supercharged Louis Seltzer was city editor of the Press. At 20, having proved that he could hold the job, he quit it to get more experience as a legman and political reporter. (In 1924, covering the Democratic Convention, he got an 18-day scoop on the nomination of John W. Davis.) He knew his town like a well-thumbed diary when he became the Press's editor at 30. He also well remembered Founder Scripps's publishing maxim: "Stay close to the people...