Word: quits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...transmitted news of these discoveries to the Senate by letter in response to the first of seven resolutions introduced in the Senate by Nebraskan Norris demanding that seven departments report whether former Cabinet officers or Senators have acted as attorneys in claim cases within two years after they had quit office. Such action is declared by opponents of Nebraskan Norris to be undesirable and contra bonos mores...
Mussolini would like nothing better than that the Pope should quit prison...
Senator Heflin received an anonymous letter from Manhattan, threatening his life if he did not quit his oil-lambasting of the Republican Party. He referred the letter to the Post Office Department...
Some 68 years ago, a man child was born in County Antrim. He grew. At nine his mother brought him and six younger brothers to America. They settled on a farm in Indiana, near Valparaiso. He got some education. He tried school teaching three times and quit from boredom. He became a printer's devil and learned to swear. He became a butcher and failed in business. He became a teamster on railroad construction work, and went to Knox College at Galesburg...
William C. Bruce, junior U. S. Senator from Maryland: "The Baltimore Sun printed a despatch to the effect that I had quit the Senate Chamber in a rage because of an attack on me by a Democratic colleague. In a letter to the Sun, I said: 'Your correspondent should have stated that I left the Senate Chamber because I was hungry, not angry. ... As I left the Chamber at a time when Senator Caraway was making some characteristic observations upon my speech, it is, perhaps, not strange that your Washington representative should have jumped to the conclusion that I left...