Word: quids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...basis on which a specific corporation might give would be on the social basis rather than the specific--quid pro quo--return to the corporation," Dana M. Doten '39, Publication Agent for the University, said yesterday...
...Territory of Hawaii for admission to the union as a full-fledged state. Hawaii has been petitioning for statehood for 98 years-and from the talk in the cloakrooms, Joe Farrington knows the odds are against him again this time. Far worse, the talk in the cloakrooms is the quid pro quo talk of politics, e.g., if Hawaii is Republican, then we should let in Democratic Alaska. Joe Farrington's lament is provoked by the fact that nobody is asking the only question that matters: "What kind of place is Hawaii in the year...
Oklahoma's new law making women ligible for jury duty brought some sharp comment from quid-rolling ex-Governor 'Alfalfa Bill" Murray. The 81-year-old ather of the present governor, Johnston Murray, and president of the State Con-titutional Convention in 1906, croaked lis objections: "It isn't right to lock women up with men in a jury room and make hem stay all night together. They won't quit till they make it legal for women to go into men's toilets. That's what they'll be after next...
...Western Europe. Her Moskvich was a big hit at the Brussels auto show. A four-cylinder four-seater, its radiator cap flaunting a red star, the Moskvich sold fast at $978, much the cheapest car at the show. For this quo, plus some gram and minerals, Russia's quid, under a trade treaty with Belgium, included sheet steel, copper, electrical equipment, and $150,000 worth of herring...
Another development yesterday originated in Camp Atterbury, Indiana. Major General Daniel B. Strickler shifted his quid and confessed he had realized "that the winning of the National League pennant by the Phillies is a great thing for the people of Pennsylvania...