Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When he quit the Cabinet last February, Harold Ickes went over to ICCASP as executive chairman (reputedly at $25,000). But Honest Harold is a little too old, crotchety and hog-on-ice independent for ICCASP. The Committee wanted him to speak here, there & everywhere; Harold wanted to speak only at rallies of his own choosing. Result: Ickes will make some speeches for the Committee this fall, and will not collect anything near $25,000. Asked about Jo Davidson's political savvy, Ickes replied: "He's a good sculptor...
Court-Martial the Prosecutor? The trials were a travesty on justice. Witnesses refused to testify; there were postponements, delays, finally transfer of the trials from London to Germany. At one point a court-martial president quit in disgust. So did Prosecutor Captain Earl J. Carroll...
...school. At 21, she won a scholarship to Florida's tennis-conscious Rollins College, played No. 4 on the men's team and got enough As in the classroom to earn a scholarship in economics at Columbia. She didn't like Manhattan's weather, and quit Columbia after six months. At 23 she was national champion...
Lessons Learned. Admen gossiped that the exodus was at least partly the result of personal differences between those who quit and R.&R.'s President Barry Ryan, who inherited his job from his father, Founder Frederick Behrens Ryan Sr. The founders of S.S.C.&B. denied the rumors, but they promptly adopted a rule against hiring a relative of any member of their new firm...
Godfrey's reason: if he can hold his own with Gagman Hope, he will be made in night-time radio, can quit getting up with the birds...