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...Sheehan was born in Buffalo, N. Y. in 1883. His father came from County Cork. His uncle was the late Bishop Richard A. Sheehan of Waterford & Lismore. Winnie Sheehan, at the age of 15, fought in the Spanish American War (as private, then corporal in the 202nd regment). His first job was reporting for the Buffalo Courier. Later he went to Manhattan, was police reporter for the New York Evening World. During the administration of Mayor William J. Gaynor he was secretary to the Fire Commissioner and later to the Police Commissioner. He joined Cineman Fox on Jan.1...
...Face. Except for Mr. Morrow, newcomers to the Senate will offer little help out of the leadership tangle. The newest Senate face-long, pointed, 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...
Soon 1,000 Cologne craftsmen will find jobs in the first Ford manufacturing plant to be set up in Europe outside of the Fordson tractor plant at Cork, Ireland. Many a continental country has Ford assembly plants. These will now be supplied with parts from Cologne, a shorter haul than from Detroit...
...gaudy contrivance made of bright new sheet tin, wooden mouldings colored bright red and black and a strip of compressed cork. It looked like a modernistic candy counter, except that a long piece of pipe went with...
...week the Bureau of Standards, which made the observations by sending employes to snipe stubs and butts on sidewalks and in office buildings, recommended fireproofing methods. The procedure is to soak matches in non-inflammable waterglass to within the useful half-inch of the head. Cigarets should have a cork tip one inch long and lined with waterglass. Congresswoman Edith Nourse Rogers of Massachusetts inspired the investigation...