Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There was no White House comment when Speculator Ed Pauley announced that he would soon quit as special assistant to the Secretary of the Army and as a State Department adviser in reparations...
...Eisenhower, who will quit his chief-of-staff duties on Feb. 15, acted as if he were beginning to enjoy the political rumpus. In Philadelphia last week to lay a wreath on Benjamin Franklin's grave, he was stopped by a man who proudly showed him a "Draft Eisenhower" button in his lapel. The General said: "Take that thing off and throw it away." But he wore his widest grin as he said...
Lean, velvet-voiced Eric Sevareid quit as CBS's Washington bureau chief to give full time to newscasting, and tossed a few hard words over his shoulder: "Radio reporting is superficial [and] sloppy. The stream runs purer than in newspaper reporting but not so deep. Radio reporters . . . know that they won't be able to use more than a few lines in most stories [so] they quit digging. I think I'd be happier writing for print...
Bowery Expert. Few modern Army officers have a background like Captain Tom Crocker. When his father died, Tom quit school at 17 and joined the Navy. After World War I he got a job as clerk in a Detroit police court and began to drink. First an alcoholic, then a dope addict, he lost his job, took to forgery, was arrested and finally committed to an insane asylum. Discharged at last, he began the same thing all over again. One night in a Detroit park, he recalls, "I got the jimmies-the D.T.s." At a Salvation Army headquarters, where...
...backed the Chicago Symphony were good & mad at temperamental Artur Rodzinski; he had become a dissonance that wouldn't resolve. When he quit the New York Philharmonic in a huff last year (TIME, Feb. 17) he had exulted: "Since 21 years, Chicago is my goal." But once he had reached his goal, said the Chicago trustees, he had not only consistently played hooky, but he had caused confusion and expense in rehearsals with last-minute changes of program. The estimated deficit thus...