Word: casey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dublin, it was a week to recall the famous 1926 riot in the Abbey Theater. The volatile Irish theatergoers were looking forward to a notable event: the world premiere of a new SEAN O'CASEY play. Mindful of the past, the law was ready. The first-night crowd was peppered with uniformed police and plainclothesmen, alert for action should the Dubliners repeat their 1926 objections to an O'Casey tilt with convention. Lester Bernstein of TIME'S London bureau was on hand to report the opening night of The Bishop's Bonfire (see THEATER...
Appointed by F.D.R. as an Assistant Secretary of State under the late Edward Stettinius in 1944, Holmes quit the next year, took a vice-presidency of T.W.A., and then the presidency of TACA Airways. He joined ex-Congressman Joe Casey, T.W.A.'s general counsel, in a scheme to buy surplus Government tankers, brought in ex-Boss Stettinius, who, in turn, brought in Fleet Admiral William ("Bull") Halsey. The tanker deals made over $3,000,000 on a $100,000 investment, and before long became the subject of a congressional investigation (TIME, March...
Meanwhile, Holmes rejoined the Foreign Service, spent five years in the London embassy as counselor and minister, returned to Washington as Secretary of State Dulles' specialist on the Trieste question. Last February he was indicted, along with Casey, 16 other associates and seven Casey corporations for illegally selling the ships to foreigners. Four of the companies paid fines, but the charges against Diplomat Holmes and other individuals were dropped. The State Department in effect has cleared Holmes of any taint in the tanker deal...
SUNSET AND EVENING STAR, by Sean O'Casey. The sixth and last volume of one of the most readable and crotchety autobiographies written in this century, by the world's greatest living playwright...
...Much as he loved to pretend that he was too detached an artist to have "sympathies," every word he wrote shows that he was much too softhearted (and not really intelligent enough) to possess the large hatreds of a Swift or the noisy spites of a Sean O'Casey. If his plays date, it is not because the humor has gone bad, but because the plots are usually as sappy and mawkish as the worst of Dickens...