Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gates Special proved itself a good machine from the moment it was started. For the first time in Indiana history an incumbent G.O.P. Senator failed to be renominated. Willis took one hard look and withdrew. LaFollette stayed in the race, got only 105 votes for his pains, then quit the G.O.P. completely. The total for Jenner: 1,994. With Democratic influence dissipated in the state, the nomination virtually assured Jenner a Senate seat. But Indiana Republicans almost forgot to talk about him, fell to speculating on what gruff, stocky Governor Gates might do when he got behind the wheel himself...
Last week, besides his three-a-night routine at the Copacabana supper club, Peter Hayes also: 1) began a four-a-day run at the Roxy Theater (thereby upping his weekly take to $4,000); 2) quit radio writing, acting and singing (because he wanted time to sleep); 3) landed a principal comedy role in the Nunnally Johnson-George Kaufman fall play Park Avenue; 4) was offered, but had to refuse because of previous commitments, the serious Eddie Dowling role in The Glass Menagerie road company; 5) received a $30,000 offer to do one movie for International Pictures...
...have two choices-either to quit international competition or to change our whole system of training, selection and tactics so that we can look like we are competing on even terms with other nations...
...Chicago's tough South Side, Chuck Luckman sold soap to seven of the first eight stores he visited. (Later he quipped: "If I couldn't sell soap in a dirty slum area I might as well quit.") He went on to chalk up an office sales record...
...Frederick W. Fitch was a barber in Madrid, Iowa (pop. 565). His shampoo became so popular that he quit barbering to make "Fitch's Dandruff Remover Shampoo." By last year, his company had annual sales of $11,000,000. The advertising that did the trick: "Fitch Shampoo removes every trace of dandruff on first application...