Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Yuko Hamaguchi, the new Prime Minister, third untitled Prime Minister of Japan,* leader of the Minseito (Liberal party). He is called Shishi ("The Lion") because of his Lloyd-Georgian hair and mustache, his roaring voice, unusual in a Japanese. Actually he looks less like a lion than a quiet, white-headed chow. Not affluent, Shishi has a reputation for the highest integrity. A Liberal, an economist, he is expected to be more flexible and progressive than the Conservative government just fallen. Twice Minister in previous cabinets, popular for his eccentricities with Japan's masses, Economist Shishi...
More eclectic are the Caterpillar Club, whose members must have saved their lives at one time or another by parachute jumps, and the Ancient & Secret Order of Quiet Birdmen about which those who know anything may tell nothing...
...still "sack the lot" because, hale at 82, he was retaining his majority of Guardian stock, and his office of "governing director" (publisher). Nor was the editorship passing far from his touch. To fill his shoes Editor Scott had trained up his son, Edward Taylor Scott, now 45, a quiet, Oxford-educated economist...
...whose murder last fall (still unsolved) created a cloud of stories about the underworld entanglements of Tammany leaders (TIME, Dec. 24). Many a New York voter had begun to forget the Rothstein murder when the Marlow murder occurred. Grover Aloysius Whalen, the fastidious police chief who was inducted to quiet the Rothstein uproar, squared his handsomely tailored shoulders, sat up late seeking clues. His detectives swarmed spectacularly through the Broadway brightlight district making raids, seeking witnesses. Other detectives chased a trail leading to Boston. Said the Commissioner: "Actions speak louder than words...
...Clarence A. Wills took his quiet pig-tailed daughter to a sunny tennis court in Berkeley, Cal., and handed her a racquet which she swung at first like a nightstick. She missed the first ball. She changed her grip and hit the next one. Within a month she could defeat her father. Four years later, when she was 15, she won the U. S. junior singles champion ship. Before she was 17 she drove back the shots of burly Molla Bjurstedt Mallory and became champion of the U. S. Two years later she met her most glorious defeat at Cannes...