Word: quits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days later, Attorney General Tom Clark announced that Berge, whose resignation has been on the President's desk since January, would quit...
There he discussed matters with Halina, his attractive wife-and with his conscience. (Conductor Rodzinski is a Buch-manite, and believes that he gets "guidance" in all his decisions.) Two hours later, he sent a telegram to the board chairman-and tipped off the press too. He had quit...
Hatcher fired a dean who had once opposed his promotion to a full professorship. Then he forced out able Dr. Beryl lies Burns, dean of L.S.U.'s crack medical school, and 27 staff doctors quit in protest (TIME, Nov. 12, 1945). His campus enemies called Hatcher "William the Conqueror," and many left rather than be conquered. Last week 58-year-old President Hatcher himself quit. Reason: ill health...
...List? But Prospective Groom McCloy was well aware that, among knowing Washingtonians, young Mr. Collado's increasing fondness for having his own way was generally looked upon as one of the chief reasons why Publisher-Banker Eugene Meyer quit the presidency two months ago. With backing from the National Advisory Council, the Government agency set up to watch over the big U.S. investment in the Bank (nearly 35% of its stock), Collado apparently felt that he was strong enough to get what he wanted-even if the president wanted something else. One thing Meyer especially feared was that...
...their 40s). The four: ¶ Robert Moses ("Lefty") Grove, 46, taciturn and angular, one of baseball's greatest southpaws. His equipment: control and a fireball exceeded only by the late Walter Johnson's. He won exactly 300 games (31 in his best year with the Athletics), quit baseball five years ago. Present occupation: running a combination poolroom and bowling alley at Lonaconing...