Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Their exact words are not known, but it is known that the Washington machine tried to explain Mr. Truman's actions. The Paris machine asked some pointed questions, and said at length that the U.S. delegation (Byrnes, Vandenberg and Tom Connally) would have to quit Paris and return to Washington unless the President's foreign policy were clarified. The Washington machine thanked the Paris machine for a "cooperative" attitude. Did the Paris machine demand Wallace's head? Not at all. In the silence of the White House and the Paris Embassy the machines signed...
Unhappy state officials ran for cover. The chairman of the State Institutional Control Board said that he had already resigned. Another board member quit. The guard who whipped Anthony Lombardi was fired...
...tackles are up in the air...the ends are out of this world. Harlow was served with a crippling blow on Friday when one of the two men he had picked as starters made a decision to quit the game in favor of academic efforts. 1942 letterman Pete Garland decided to concentrate on his chosen field of architecture, leaving the team in a procarious position...
...citizen, which is sent on to his superior or employer. The slightest hint of disloyalty toward the Government in the karakteristika is sufficient to bar its subject from getting a job or food. (Recently, a U.S. official living in Belgrade was informed by his maid that she had to quit and go to work for the Government without pay, as "punishment." Reason: she had declared she felt sorry for the condemned Mihailovich because he reminded her of her dead father...
...movie and radio talent as tightly as James Caesar Petrillo controls his musicians. As agent for Heidt, Jules Stein was not content to collect only 10% of Heidt's musical earnings; he wanted a cut of all Heidt's earnings. Heidt refused and was forced to quit the music business until 1947, when his contract with Stein expires...