Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...possibly pusillanimity. Petrillo, who gave up smoking a year ago, suddenly started chainsmoking at the House Labor Committee hearings (see cut). Said he: "I didn't start smokin' till the day of the investigation and I'm still dizzy. Still smokin'. I'm gonna quit tomorrow...
...then the Republicans quit laughing and grasped a sticky problem of their own-the congressional ceiling on the budget. Early in the week, the House demonstrated the difficulty of cutting budgets in election years. It whooped through two bills increasing veterans' allowances for education and on-the-job training, which added an estimated $500 million to the budget. The G.O.P. majority of both houses then plunked for a cut of $2.5 billion in Harry Truman's $39.7 billion budget...
Until the Warsaw government's rigged elections in January 1947, Lane stuck to his post. After that, seeing no hope of Poland's adherence to the Yalta declaration ("free and unfettered elections"), he quit, and returned home to write the saddening story of what he had seen...
Bands & Torchlights. This was not all. Next week all of New Orleans will quit work, put on a-million dollars' worth of costumes, and spill noisily into the streets. There will be 13 parades with bands, torchlights, and scores of magnificent floats. On Carnival Day a million people will jam along Canal Street, jostle, throw confetti, sing, and, quite possibly, get more than slightly tight...
Maxim for Max. In June 1945 Corre began to edit Samedi Soir. Paris took to it like a dance craze; its circulation was soon 370,000. He quit a year later after a squabble and called on his old boss, Pierre Lazareff. Corre wanted to take over the dull Sunday edition of Lazareff's profitable France-Soir (TIME, June 23). "Take it," said Lazareff, "it's yours." With five hours to make his first deadline, Corre slapped together an edition that tripled France Dimanche's circulation, then 30,000. When Samedi Soir's editors...