Word: quits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boston last week, one of the most respected teachers in one of the nation's most respected high schools explained that he had quit his job after 31 years because he wanted to say "what had to be said without gloves." For his bare-knuckled attack on American teaching methods, see EDUCATION, The Big Kindergarten...
...labor unions would' quit pushing for a new round of wage boosts while the economy is drooping, retail prices might well decline far enough to stir plenty of consumer interest. In Manhattan, where the end of "Fair Trade" pricing on appliances brought a hot price-cutting war, housewives showed a frantic, elbowing eagerness to spend money for toasters, irons, rotisseries, clock radios...
CLINGAN JACKSON SHOULD QUIT. Last week
Jackson roused the angry voice of Editor Louis B. Seltzer of Scripps-Howard's Cleveland Press (circ. 313,749). Under the headline THESE THINGS DON'T MIX, the Press urged that Jackson either drop out of the governor's race or 1) quit as political editor and 2) resign from the parole board, on which "the chance to make some extra friends by being extra lenient is just too appealing to pass up." Added the Press: "Trying to make himself look good (as a candidate) when he knows (as a reporter) he can't win, [Jackson...
...right to take part in politics. Of course, I'm not sure what our position might be if Jackson were nominated and became the Democratic candidate for governor." That prospect, less interested political editors agreed, is even more remote than the chance that Clingan Jackson will quit writing about politics...