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Speaker Garner, Majority Leader Rainey, Minority Leader Snell and Acting Chairman Crisp of the Ways & Means Committee were all powerless to stop the rowdy stampede. Weary and disheartened after a two-day drubbing, Chairman Crisp uprose to say: "I may be defeated but I'm never a quitter. I don't believe the House is in a proper frame of mind to legislate today. I think it would do us all good to have an opportunity to cool off and to think." Thereupon at his suggestion the House adjourned, laying the tax bill aside for three full days...
...Mount Clemens, Mich., George Schwartz appeared in court to ask aid for his four children whom he claimed to be unable to support. "I'm sick, judge. I think I'm going to die," said he, whereupon he collapsed, died, was carried out of court. Quitter...
...life, since the age of six, I have had to fight the battle of life. This great industry which I now head was started with my life's savings of $1,600. . . . I have never been a quitter. I have tried to fight the game clean. And so, when I found myself and my organizations sentenced to financial death, I determined to fight this battle as I have fought every battle of my life-in the open, and clean...
Greasy with sweat, a fighter slumped in his corner. To the tense manager muttering instructions in his ear he snarled helplessly. Newspapermen in the fringe of harsh white light around the ringside heard the manager snarl something about "quitter." The fisticuffer, despairing, defiant, jumped to his short legs and went through the mill. Panting, pounding, suffering, he hammered the hard little man dancing a short arm's length away. Twice he struck below the belt and was harshly called by the referee. Even he kept the battle, head jarred, hands jabbing. After a swirling fifteenth round the bell jangled...
...manufacturing new, replacement red blood cells have not been functioning properly. In Baylor Hospital, Dallas, Tex., last week he borrowed blood for the 42nd time in six months. With three arm veins already destroyed by repeated blood transfusions and realizing his futility, he said: "I'd be a quitter if I didn't fight to the last...