Word: connor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mahion Fechter, of Patohogue, L, I., N. Y., A. B. Indina '40, Bernheimer scholarship; James F. O'Connor Jr., of New York City, A. B. Columbia '40, William Choney Brown Jr. scholarship; Daniel C. Draper, of Morgantown, W. Va., A., B. West Virginia '40, John L. Cadwalador memorial scholarship; Lawrence F. Ebb, of Dorchester, A, B. Harvard '39, Lewis Larned Coburn scholarship; Richard F. Newton, of Ligonier, Ind., A. B. Indina University '40, Lewis Larned Coburn scholarship; John D. Ramsey, of Kaneas City, Mo., A. B. University of Kansas '40, Lewis Larned Coburn scholarship...
Henry L. Shattuck '01, senior member of the Corporation, was revealed last night as the anonymous donor of $51,410 given to the University for study in Irish culture, history and language. The announcement was made at a meeting of the Irish Charitable Society when President, O'Connor rose and said, "He is a Harvard man who has given this fund to Harvard because he has the glory of the Irish race in his blood. . . . He is a splendid Irishman...
...Valera promptly denounced the treaty his own men had signed, but the Dail Eireann approved it. Losing his immense popularity overnight, the onetime hero went, with the irreconcilable I. R. A., once again into armed revolt. Ireland counted more dead, among them Rory O'Connor, executed by the Irish Provisional Government and Michael Collins, mainstay for years of the rebellion movement, ambushed and shot by the I. R. A. For two years de Valera hid from not British but Irish forces. Die-hards stood by him through thick & thin, continuing to consider him the genuine President of the Irish...
...British Representative's office. At the Post Office, bloody scene of the 1916 Easter Rebellion, they stood silent for two minutes. Sports were canceled, cinemas closed. At Mountjoy Prison, where once Mr. de Valera himself was jailed and where in 1922 the British shot Rory O'Connor, railroad engineer and onetime I. R. A. staff member, a crowd burned the Union Jack...
When Congress met that day Mr. O'Connor jumped to his feet, said: "Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that, on Page 1248 of the Congressional Record. .. the word 'allies' be stricken out and the word 'bellies' inserted in lieu thereof...