Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When a 1939 poll showed him leading the field of possible Democratic presidential candidates (in case F.D.R. did not run), "[Roosevelt] quit inviting me for luncheons at his desk...
...Moscow, a 33-year-old Clairton, Pa. girl named Annabella Bucar announced that she had been secretly married to a Russian singer, quit her job in the U.S. Embassy to become a Soviet housewife. Back in the U.S. her father, an Austrian immigrant, immediately disowned...
...after long illness; in Manhattan. Lamont (he resigned over 20 major directorships when he went to Washington) always insisted that prosperity was "just around the corner"; as president of the American Iron & Steel Institute for 13 months (August 1932-September 1933), he bucked the New Deal tide, finally quit, inveighing against the idea of government in industry: "No one knows...
Journey's End. In Turkey Point, Md., Fannie Salter quit her job as lighthouse-keeper after 23 years, explained simply: "Fallen arches...
Mail-Order Model. She went to Northwestern University for a year and a half, then quit and got a job as a model. She posed for pictures for the Montgomery Ward catalogue. She went to New York, got a job playing Pearl in a road-show version of Tobacco Road...