Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proposal for distributing the pension fund. His plan: $100-a-month pensions for miners over 62 with 20 years' service, who retired after May 28, 1946. Lewis had wanted to give $100 pensions to all miners over 60 with 20 years' service, no matter when they quit. Van Horn had never made any proposal; he had simply maintained that Lewis' plan was not legal and could never be supported on the 10? royalty which the operators are required to pay on every ton of coal mined...
...pursuit of full justice. . . ." But it apparently took the word of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation that it would be "impossible" to win the case "since [the Klan] would be able to furnish approximately 175 witnesses against the newspaper reporters." At week's end, City Editor Joe Hall quit in disgust...
Paul Hoffman was born 56 years ago in Chicago. He went to the University of Chicago for one year, then quit to sell autos. Selling was his forte. He plunged into the rich Los Angeles auto market, served two years in the field artillery in World War I, returned to Los Angeles to operate the Studebaker agency...
...many G.I.s, Willie and Joe found it hard to get back into civilian life. Like their creator, baby-faced Cartoonist Bill Mauldin, they had found the issues much simpler Up Front than Back Home. This week, tired of coping with the problem of reconverting Willie, Joe and himself, Mauldin quit as a syndicated newspaper cartoonist...
...showing you how to hold a bat?" But after the elder Hill died a year and a half ago and 71-year-old Vincent Riggio succeeded him as president, Foote, like the younger Hill, was gradually provoked to a point beyond the bounds of "respectful disagreement," finally decided to quit...