Word: dail
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Dail, having passed this bill, had adjourned. Mr. De Valera called the Dail back into session. It promptly repassed the bill, thus squelching the Senate's opposition...
Causes of the conflict were President de Valera's attempt to abolish the Free State Dail's oath of fealty to George V (an attempt thus far blocked by the Free State Senate) and secondly Mr. de Valera's nonpayment of the so-called "Irish annuities" - sums which the pre ious Free State Government of President William Thomas Cosgrave paid to compensate absentee landlords living in Britain for their former Irish estates. From the first President de Valera offered to arbitrate this issue before a tribunal not exclusively composed of the King's subjects, and from...
...rage the Governor General re leased to the Press statements that he has been "discourteously treated" ever since the de Valera Cabinet came in. Defying Mr. de Valera personally, the Governor General wrote to the President, "I know you have a majority in the Dail, aid I know that you can have me removed. ... I do not think I should resign my office because other officeholders think I am a suitable target for ill-conditioned bad manners...
Doing No Wrong? "If England wants a fight, England can have a fight!" cried de Valera Deputy Corey in the Dail. "Ireland is no longer going to be the kitchen garden of England...
...power. The President stuck last week to the job of keeping his other great campaign promise- his promise to abolish the Oath of Fealty to the King (TIME, Feb. 29, et seq.}. In Dublin the bill abolishing the Oath was before the Irish Senate having passed the Dail. Suddenly in London the beans were spilled by that pudgy-fingered, perennial bungler the Rt. Hon. James Henry ("Jim") Thomas, Minister of Dominions...