Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After five years in London, John Gilbert Winant resigned last week as U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. He would be succeeded by William Averell Harriman, who quit a month ago as U.S. Ambassador to Russia. Winant would assume a new post as permanent delegate to the United Nations Economic and Social Council (a body he helped create...
...years in office. From the early days of the Soviet Union's precarious fight for survival down to the latter days of its expansive glory, the "little father of the peasants" had dispensed friendly fatherliness and earthy philosophy. Now, with his eyesight almost gone, he was happy to quit. The shriveled sage with the oldfashioned, tip-tufted beard had the distinction of being one of the few top-ranking Old Bolsheviks to be removed from office merely...
...Woods official will be the president of the Bank. Leading candidate for the $30,000-a-year job was Lewis Douglas, president of the Mutual Life Insurance Co. and an old crony of Fred Vinson's. A onetime Democratic Congressman from Arizona, and U.S. Budget Director, he had quit the New Deal in protest against its spending policies. His appointment would be a sop to conservative Democrats...
...ring seemed to be enjoying himself hugely. Only once was he rattled-when photographers posed him on the witness stand and asked him to raise his right hand. Shouted he: "I quit doing this several months...
...Mexican league of sorts has limped along, largely on unofficial betting, for 21 years. A once great U.S. star, Rogers Hornsby, took a fling at it in 1944. quit after he had broken up a game with a grand-slam homer. (The club owner told him he shouldn't have done that, because it would hurt the next day's attendance.) By such showmanship the brothers Pasquel hope to take Mexico's mind off bullfighting. They talk big of plans to lure 30 or 40 U.S. big-leaguers south next year, to increase their three-games...