Word: quits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lacometti joined the Socialists in his student days and the Fascists kicked him out of Italy in 1926, when he was 24. In France he got a job as head gardener at the lush Moulin Bicherel roadhouse. The sight of the idle rich disporting themselves disgusted him and he quit. France kicked him out and he got a job addressing envelopes in Brussels. The Germans chased him for a year, caught him, gave him to Mussolini, who imprisoned him. In his years as an exile lacometti once had a job as a traveling salesman. He says: "I didn...
Last week, hardworking, colorless John Studebaker, 61, quit his $10,000 job. "Along with too many other men," he wrote President Truman, "the time has now come when I can no longer afford to remain in the Federal Government." As vice president of Scholastic Magazines and editorial chairman of their five classroom publications, he would make considerably more...
...husband John had paid $15,000 for the Phoenix Shopping News two years ago, had sunk a reported $580,000 (their own and other people's) into making it a Democratic afternoon daily. But even in its best month the Times lost $5,000. After John quit (TIME, Feb. 16), Anna loaded the Times with puffs, hoping to appease and attract advertisers. She succeeded only in displeasing her 31,000 readers and antagonizing her staff...
Schary said he would resign, but Hughes, as usual, had the last word: a fortnight before the date agreed upon, he summarily canceled three pictures that Schary had announced for production. Producer Schary quit two days later. Cracked the studio's new boss: "It saved me paying him two weeks' salary...
Ambitious son of a Swiss herdsman, César Ritz left home at 15 for a job emptying slops in small Paris hotels, moved on through other jobs till he became a manager. He quit to start at the bottom again in Paris' famed Restaurant Voisin, an international hangout for royalty and gourmets. There young César's instinct for the personal touch drew the attention of influential customers. During the siege of Paris in 1871, food was so scarce that the city zoo slaughtered its two elephants, of which Voisin's got the trunks. Thanks...