Word: quiteness
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...Last week resignations poured in upon the White House as Republican officials quit before the oncoming Democratic tide. Joshua Reuben Clark Jr. stepped out as Ambassador to Mexico. James Clifton Stone surrendered the chairmanship of the Federal Farm Board. Gustaf Aaron Youngquist, appointed as the Department of Justice's Dry hope, resigned as Assistant Attorney General...
...Banker Perkins graduated from Harvard when Harvard had a "Sound Money Campaign Club" and a "Total Abstinence League." He was a member of neither. Captain of the 1898 crew, First Marshal of his class (and president the three previous years), he went to work for Walter Baker & Co. (chocolate), quit in 1905 to become a vice president of a Boston bank...
Under the League Covenant neither Japan nor China is obliged to announce acceptance or rejection of the Report until 90 days after its adoption by the Assembly. Japan would remain a League member for two years after serving notice of intention to quit the League. Moreover the U. S. and Soviet Russia are to be asked under a paragraph of the Report (if adopted) to "associate themselves with the views expressed in the report . . . and concert their action and their attitude with the members of the League...
...Boss," said the young bartender, "I quit...
...second day, after passing Nigeria, the robot pilot quit, leaving the human pilots to guess their way through rain squalls and the second night...