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Subjects of the speeches ranged from excerpts out of Sir Walter Raleigh's "The History of the World" to a selection from John Dos Passos' "U.S.A." Lipson recited from "Statement to the Court on Being Convicted of Treason" by Sir Roger Casement, an Irish patriot who was hanged during the last war, and Thayer chose parts of Stephen Vincent Benet's "Notes to Be Left on a Cornerstone." Charles took selections from a speech of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., while Henry quoted a section of Melville's "Moby Dick." Nichols, the first speaker, used T. S. Eliot's poem, "Coriolan...
Died. Dr. Fred Puleston, 78, who in his adventurous life was a prisoner of Jesse James, knew the Irish Patriot Sir Roger Casement, Explorer Henry M. Stanley and Missionary David Livingstone, saw his own brother eaten by a crocodile in the Congo and wrote a book about it all (African Drums, 1930); in Daytona Beach, Fla. His last request: that his death be noted in TIME...
...William Casement Bower, vice president of New York Central System. His job: procurement studies...
...immediate aftermath of Easter Week was the execution of 5 leaders, the sentencing of 75 revolters to penal servitude, the imprisonment of 23, the internment of 1,841. Later, in London, the best known of the Easter Week conspirators, Sir Roger Casement, died on the gallows, despite the pleas of Pope Benedict XV and the U. S. Senate. British civil servant turned Irish patriot, Sir Roger had been arrested on the Irish coast only a few hours after landing from a German submarine. His trial was in the glorious tradition; before a British judge and jury he argued Ireland...
...crowd which still remembered vividly the martyrdom of men like Terence MacSwiney, playwright, editor, onetime Mayor of Cork, who starved himself to death in a London prison; of Sir Roger Casement, convicted of high treason and hanged in Pentonville Prison; of James Connolly, whose Easter Rebellion wounds the British cured only so that he could later be shot. Whether or not Richards and Barnes would measure up to the martyrs on this list, the fact was that the 700-year-old Irish hatred for Britain was again sorely inflamed. Best expression of Irish feeling came in a resolution...