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...eligible to retire on an annual pension of $37,000. Therefore, something more than his $155,000-a-year salary was needed as an incentive to keep him running the corporation. But few oilmen believed that there was any danger of Sinco quitting. He had never been a quitter, not even during the ill-famed Teapot Dome scandal...
...telling of his early surgical cases, Dr. Seagrave reveals a side of the surgeon which few laymen realize exists: "I looked forward with dread to every new operation I had to do. But I never had any overwhelming love for a quitter. When a new operation needed to be done, I got out my books and studied every detail. Then I was profusely sick, went to bed on it, and the next morning, still nauseated, started operating...
...altogether too many subjects of King George VI are altogether too unsatisfied with what little they know about how Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin secured the abdication and departure of King Edward (TIME, Dec. 21). The fact that Edward VIII had apparently quit, and was even being called contemptuously a "quitter" last week, failed to appease the patient resolve of Scotsmen to know all, sooner or later. The adjournment of the House of Commons in London last week was welcomed by Scottish constituents as an opportunity to get their Scottish M. P.'s on the carpets of their homes during...
...studies, he is confronted by pleading fellow students and friends, coaches, and in some instances, officers of the University, who endeavor to rouse his conscience and sense of 'duty' to Alma Mater. Few young men can resist this pressure, especially in view of the social stigma attached to the 'quitter...
More daring. James M. Cox's Dayton (Ohio) Daily News observed: "It is not the game thing the Lindberghs do. -. . There is something of the quitter in this running away from one's own country's woes...