Word: quirks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sheep rancher, Senator Sullivan grew up with the West, prospered with its oil. He lives at Casper in the State's finest mansion. Plain, bighearted, full of fight or banter, Irishman Sullivan was undisturbed by reports that the Senate might question his right to membership because of a quirk juggled into the Wyoming law by a Republican legislature to prevent one-time (1925-27) Governor Nellie Tayloe Ross from appointing a Democrat in case Senator Warren died...
...latest quirk in the problem cropped up last week in Paris when French Senator Henry de Mery arose to comment on the proposed. duPont-financed seadromes of Inventor Edward R. Armstrong (TIME. Oct. 28). Senator de Mery urged the French delegation to the London parley to bring up this matter in connection with U. S. naval strength, warning that otherwise "just outside our territorial waters we will someday likely see islands appear flying the Star-Spangled Banner...
...queer quirk in the whole situation was that Japan, which for months has stubbornly kept an interventionary force in Shantung, disregarding incessant Nationalist howls of protest, suddenly came to terms last week with the shaky and harassed Nationalist Government and entered into a signed agreement to withdraw her slit-eyed marines by June 1. It is common knowledge that Japan has financed and favored Marshal Chang, the captor of Chefoo, but it would be news indeed if the Imperial Government con- siders Chang already strong enough to see that Japanese interests and colonists in Shantung come to no harm during...
...queer quirk is that after Bolivia and Paraguay did cease firing last week, they turned for mediation not to the Council of the League-which had spent $26,000 on words-but to the Pan-American Conference on Arbitration and Conciliation at Washington...
...sold two magazines, Smart Set and McClure's, to James R. Quirk...