Word: quits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...latter Washington years, Modern Republican Rockefeller clashed more and more often with such Administration conservatives as Treasury Secretary George Humphrey and Budget Director Joseph Dodge, who thought his suggestions sometimes too expensive, and Under Secretary of State Herbert Hoover Jr., who frequently thought them too bold. In 1955 Rockefeller quit Washington, went home to New York. Friends are certain that somewhere along in here he resolved to try for office himself. "He felt," said a friend, "he had to run for elective office, because nobody really paid any attention to someone who was only an appointee...
WASHINGTON--Secretary of State Dulles Tuesday heralded a possible major shift in America's China policy. He offered to try trimming Nationalist military strength in the Formosa Strait offshore islands if the Communists quit shooting...
...from finished," said T. J. Raney, president of the Little Rock Private School Corporation. "We can't quit." Raney gave no indication of the nature of the plan...
...marriage to Cassini, Gene could find no emotional stability. In 1953 she got a divorce, soon found herself in another romance with Aly Khan. Marriage appeared to be close, but it didn't work out. He rebuffed her plea to quit intercontinental fun and games; his father, the Aga Khan, sternly opposed another movie-actress marriage after Aly's divorce from Rita Hayworth. With her need for stability unmet. Gene's anxiety grew worse. In New York she walked out on a TV commitment to play Nora in Ibsen's A Doll's House...
Matsushita himself came up by frugality and work that was hard even by Japanese standards. Born in Osaka, son of a merchant who lost his kimono selling rice, Konosuke quit school in the fourth grade to go to work in a bicycle shop. At 17 he saw the electric streetcars come in. concluded the future lay in electricity, got a job with the Osaka Electric Light Co. His lack of education blocked promotion, so he saved and borrowed $98 to open a factory in his home...