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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with fun-filled eyes-is that of Patrick Sullivan, born on St. Patrick's Day 64 years ago in County Cork, Ireland. Governor Emerson of Wyoming appointed him to the Warren vacancy. Since 1917 he has been Wyoming's Republican National Committeeman. Like his predecessor a wealthy 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Lineup Changes | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...succulent the flesh of unborn animals is, few civilized people know.* Civilized sentiment obscurely associated with motherhood generally forbids its eating. U. S. Government regulations have codified that sentiment by prohibiting the marketing of unborn cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses.† There is no medical reason and no stringent religious injunction against such eating. Scarcity of slaughterhouse fetuses, Dr. Elijah Joseph Gordon, slight, swarthy, witty Professor of Medicine at Ohio State University, admitted last week, handicapped him in effecting the experimental cure of two anemia cases this year.** Ordinary liver has become remedy of choice for the anemias (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Fetal Livers | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

...idea: "You see men walking and they seem to be free but look at their faces, they're caught." The first poem is Jeffers' version of the Passion Play, with Judas cast in a major role. The second tells the story of Clare Walker, leading her dwindling flock of sheep along the California coast toward the day when her baby will be born and she will die. Says Poet Jeffers: "There is some relationship between the two . . . poems . . . the shepherdess in one, and Judas and Jesus in the other, each embodying different aspects of love; nearly pure, therefore undeluded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tragedian | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

...Christian Church, often mentioned, is never seen. It exists as the possibly common Idea behind the many wrangling Words. Of the two great divisions of Christendom, Catholic and Protestant, neither is ready to merge with the other. The Catholics are willing to receive stray sheep; the Protestants are trying to federate the flocks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Brothers in Christ | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

Architect Wright was born in 1869 on a Wisconsin farm where he spent his precocious childhood tending sheep. With no formal education he informally studied engineering at the University of Wisconsin. Although he received no degree he became unusually proficient in that profession. Twenty years ago his reputation in architecture was worldwide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Genius, Inc. | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

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