Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communist-cored Greater New York C.I.O. Council, which was noisily defying Murray's edict against backing Henry Wallace, took a stiff right hook from Michael J. Quill, boss of the C.I.O. Transport Workers Union. Tough Mike, heeding Murray's gospel, quit as president of the council, and advised New York City's 42,000 subway workers and bus drivers to have nothing more to do with...
...total volume. Never before had any agency voluntarily given up such a fat account (one of the twelve largest in the U.S.). Foote's reasons were the same, and just as general, as those given a week before by George Washington Hill Jr. when he quit as American Tobacco's $230,000-a-year vice president in charge of advertising (TIME, March 29). Like Hill, Foote said he had resigned because of "general disagreement over policies...
...following in the steps of Louis Budenz, who had quit as managing editor of New York's Daily Worker (TIME, Oct. 22, 1945) to rejoin the Roman Catholic Church, Convert Hyde took along his two children. His wife, a Communist for ten years, also quit the party. Said Hyde: "It became obvious to me that the movement for which I had fought and worked so long was destroying those very freedoms and decencies for which it claimed to be fighting. . . . Communism was incapable of providing a cure for an extremely sick world. My growing disillusionment led me to seek...
...Government hand. He started work with the Government in 1933 as a public works attorney after he had worked his way through night classes at Fordham law school by selling plumbing equipment. He moved to the Treasury in 1938, became its general counsel in 1944, but quit last year "to provide for the financial security" of his wife and two daughters. He changed his mind about Government work, which he enjoys, because "I was flattered by the President's request and couldn't find any good reason for saying...
Last week George Hill Jr. dragged it into the open. He quit his $230,000-a-year job as vice president and fired off a blast at American's management. Hill said that American, which had once sold 15% more cigarettes than second-place Camels (R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.), was now barely ahead. In 1947, Camels had come up till its volume of production was only 1½% under Luckies. The fault, said he, was in the advertising, and "executive decisions with which I am in fundamental disagreement, and in the making of which I have...