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...Roman Catholic Church has treated I.R.A. membership as a mortal sin. The cause has been hurt by a decline in the "tolerant sympathy" of Irish-Americans, whose dollars largely financed the rebels. Eire's President Eamon ("The Long Fella") de Valera, a legendary hero of the Battle of Boland's Mills in 1916, once pledged to make "Ireland her own, and all therein, from the sod to the sky," but he has repeatedly censured latter-day rebels. Chided Dev: "These young men are living in the past...
...favorites as Missouri's Dick Boiling and New Jersey's Frank Thompson, but on McCormack-style Congressmen like Massachusetts' Thomas P. ("Tip") O'Neill Jr. and New York's James J. Delaney, members of the key House Rules Committee, and Massachusetts' Edward P. Boland, who, as the only intimate shared by McCormack and Jack Kennedy's liaison man Larry O'Brien, can serve as a link between the House and the White House...
...Georgetown terrace, with Wife Elva presiding at meals that include O'Brien potatoes. But O'Brien has remembered the Kennedy warning: although he is liked by nearly everyone, Republican as well as Democrat, on the Hill, he has made use of only one close friend: Representative Eddie Boland, the Congressman from O'Brien's own district. (It was Boland who was the earliest to spot Jack Kennedy's presidential potential. In 1946 he told O'Brien: "Kennedy's a real comer. He can go all the way.") On the Hill, Boland...
...Gavel. When U.S. Delegate Francis O. Wilcox brought up the same unpleasant item of Communist subject nations, Rumania's Mezincescu, clearly feeling he had not been noisy or rude enough before, interrupted with a frenzied, podium-pounding display. He shouted that Assembly President Frederick Boland was partial toward "supporters of the colonialists," and Khrushchev again took off his shoe and thumped his desk with it. To restore order, President Boland pounded his gavel until it broke. "Because of the scene you have just witnessed," Boland coldly told the delegates, "I think the Assembly had better adjourn...
...Army's communications laboratory at Fort Monmouth, N.J. When Courier iB approached Puerto Rico, a Signal Corps radio at Salinas commanded it to repeat the President's words. This it duly did, and the message was forwarded by conventional radio to New York for delivery to Frederick Boland. President of the General Assembly of the United Nations...