Word: corks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dail Eireann, sixth in the six years that the Irish Free State has existed, met last week in a bitter session. President (Premier) William Thomas Cosgrave, sitting as an ordinary Deputy for Cork, was re-elected President of the Executive Council by a majority of six votes. The actual votes cast were 76 for and 70 against, Capt. William Archer Redmond abstaining and James Larkin, Dublin Communist, absent as an undischarged bankrupt...
...playwriting, the first selection went completely native. It is set at Charleston's docks, written in Negro patois, deals with purely Negro problems (as opposed to most plays and books about Negroes, which struggle with race prejudice and intermarriage), is played almost wholly by a company colored without burnt cork...
Sinn Fein: This group represents the die-hard Republicans, led by Miss Mary McSwiney, sister of Cork's late Lord Mayor. It believes in forcible methods to overthrow the Free State regime...
...floor is equipped with soundless cork tiles. Other features are the chandeliers which have parchment shades, and the paintings set in the front of the room at the left. A blank, white wall at the back of the lecture stage is used for the screen...
...following is a list of jurors. John Benson of Benson and Gamble, Advertising Agency of Chicago; S. E. Conybeare, President of the Association or National Advertisers and Assistant Sales Manager of the Armstrong Cork Company of Lancaster, Pa.; H. T. Ewald, President of the Campbell-Ewald Company of Detroit; F. C. Kendall, Editor of "Advertising and Selling Fortnightly," New York; W. D. Moriarty, Professor of Economics at the University of Southern California, A. C. Pearson, Treasurer of the United Publishers Corporation of New York; Hartford Powel Jr., Editor of the "Youth's Companion", Boston; Louis Wiley, Business Manager...