Word: quits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italy's Minister of Popular Culture, Dino Alfieri, last week ruled that Arnaldo Cortesi, Rome correspondent of the New York Times, must quit his job January 1, along with some 200 other Italian news men employed by foreign newspapers or press associations...
...clear that they would meet this week as one democrat talking to another in an autocrats' world, for Mr. Eden quickly made it obvious that he had come to the U. S. as an apologist for Britain. Personable Mr. Eden had many an advantage for his job. Having quit as Neville Chamberlain's Foreign Secretary because he opposed the Chamberlain policy, he could talk easily to U. S. citizens who did not approve it. He also could expect respect for whatever he had to say, since Neville Chamberlain announced in the House of Commons last week that...
Frank Donald Coster graduated from Heidelberg with an M.D. and a Ph.D., practiced medicine in New York City from 1912 to 1914. He quit practice to become president of Girard & Co., a small drug manufacturer owned by his mother's family. In 1926 he bought control of McKesson & Robbins, old and honored New York drug house, and made it the nucleus of a nationwide manufacturing and distributing business...
Exceptions occur when politics butts in: the 39th season of Portland's Tuesday Afternoon Club started badly this year when Mrs. Edward Pelton's review of America's Sixty Families created so much dissension that the club decided to quit talking about books on current subjects. To avoid such regrettable incidents the conservative Portland Study Club chooses titles with great care, likes Pearl Buck's novels or such works as Bertita Harding's life of Franz Joseph of Austria, Golden Fleece, which Mrs. R. Roy Palmer reviewed last month...
Says Odets: "I was a melancholy kid, I guess." He quit high school at 15 because "it was a waste of time." He took to writing poetry, and his father angrily smashed his typewriter. Indignant, Clifford cried: "You can't harness me to a truck-can't you see I'm not a truck horse?" "Believe me," he says today, "there were some very gloomy evenings...