Word: dail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Center, Ala., M. M. Bishop, 57, a clever bird imitator, sat in some bushes with his gun, hooting like an owl to attract a hawk which had been ravaging his barnyard. Dail Cagle, 15, went out to hunt the same hawk, sat on a fence, heard the hooting, aimed where he thought the owl was, shot Bishop in the head, killed...
...Dublin, de Valera lieutenants did their best last week for their absent chieftain. Before packed galleries in the Dail (Chamber of Deputies) grimly facing the complacent government benches, Sean T. O'Kelly, acting leader of the Fianna Fail (Irish Republican party), put Mr. de Valera's name in nomination for President of the Irish Free State...
...Eamon de Valera is the outstanding Irishman of the present generation." he shouted. "He is the only man likely to restore the lost confidence of the people." When the laughter caused by this remark had died down, members of the Dail promptly defeated Absentee de Valera, 93 to 54, as promptly defeated another candidate, Thomas J. O'Connell, Laborite. Then they put shock-headed "Willie" Cosgrave back into power with a vote...
President "Willie" accepted his re-election with a speech of just one sentence: "I thank the Dail for the great honor they have done me, and I shall discharge my duties to the best of my ability...
...Cosgrave, whose position as "President" is strikingly similar to that of a "Prime Minister," reported himself to his superior, the representative of King George V, jovial Governor- General of the Irish Free State James McNeill, who had rushed back from the Continent to Dublin to receive him. With the Dail's approval all members of the Irish Cabinet which fell fortnight ago were reinstated in their old ministries under President Cosgrave...