Word: quits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first place rallied votes, stuck it back in again by a 230-to-183, party-line vote. Unless the Senate amends or the President vetoes, the Defense Department will keep on making paint, roasting coffee and laundering skivvies in addition to more important duties until Congress grants permission to quit...
...case (TIME, July 1), Youngdahl set aside the contempt-of-Congress conviction of the New York Times's Copyreader Seymour Peck, who last year declined to tell a Senate Internal Security subcommittee the names of Reds he had known during the twelve years he was a Communist (he quit the party...
Workers' Support. White-thatched, ruddy-faced Lindsay Almond got his crack at the nomination the hard way. A onetime high-school principal, prosecuting attorney, judge of Roanoke's Hustings Court* (twelve years) and Congressman, he quit Washington in 1948 to be the Byrd candidate for attorney general, with the implied promise of a turn at governor. But as attorney general he lost his place in line when he endorsed Harry Truman's nomination of an anti-Byrd Virginia Democrat to the Federal Trade Commission. (Byrd beat the nomination in the Senate.) As a result, Byrd-minded Governor...
After 3½ hours a laconic voice announced over the loudspeaker: "As you may know, the ship has gone aground." Two tugs and a U.S. Coast Guard cutter came, tugged futilely and quit. Reporters swarmed out in small boats, were driven off by ship's officers who brandished a fire hose...
...Frank M. McMahon, 54, chairman of Pacific Petroleums Ltd. and president of Westcoast Transmission, whose new 650-mile pipeline will start carrying gas this fall from the Peace River area to Vancouver and the U.S. border. The Canadian-born son of a wandering hard-rock miner, Oilman McMahon quit college to become a prospector himself, bounced from drilling rig to drilling rig until the 1940s, when he moved into the Peace River area above Edmonton in search of gas and oil. When the provincial government lifted leasehold restrictions on Peace River lands in 1947, McMahon snapped up an original...