Word: quiteness
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...politics he was a Republican and staunch party man. When Roosevelt started the Progressive party, he said he would rather " quit politics than split his party." On the other hand, he supported President Wilson on the League of Nations issue, denouncing the irreconcilables. He helped write the Republican tariff plank and yet attacked the Fordney-McCumber Tariff for its wool duties. An enemy of the Non-Partisan League in the Northwest, an opponent of the soldier bonus (although one of the two civil war veterans in the Senate), a supporter of the Dyer anti-lynching bill and an advocate...
Although the time is not altered, all Frenchmen will be expected to go to work half an hour earlier and quit at 30 minutes before the normal hour. For example, a law-abiding Frenchman will get up at 7 o'clock instead of 7:30; arrive at his business at 8:30 instead of 9; lunch at 11:30 instead of 12; start his afternoon's work at 2:30 instead of 3; dine at 7:30 and not at 8; and go to bed half an hour before his accustomed time. Moreover all public services will conform...
...contrast to this view is Mr. Lamont's straightforward advice to consider: "what, if any, of these debts are in any event uncollectible and so should be written off, in order to quit fooling ourselves. Let us decide what others of these debtors are good in part, but must be given ample time to pay; emphatically, let us figure whether the payment of these debts--which inevitably must mean a great increase in our import and a heavy decrease in our export trade--is going to prove an asset or a liability for American business...
...opposed to absolute concentration in one intensive field. The danger in a single-track education can be well summed up in the words of a successful flood-engineer of the Middle West:--"I trained myself to go out and clean up my field, to make a million and then quit. I've got that now, but what am I going to do with it? I have absolutely nothing to fall back upon...
...cannot go flack to the early days of capitalistic economics and simply prohibit all strikes by law. Theoretically, every workman ought to be free to quit work when he pleases-no matter if he does so alone, or in company with all the workers in his industry. Practically he is not free; the action of one economic group is no longer without immediate and vital effect on the others...