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President Hoover could be impeached, but short of that neither law nor custom could force him to resign, even if all his pet projects were defeated in Congress a thousand times. Last week in Dublin, however, an adverse majority of only two votes in the Dail Eireanu forced "President Liam T. MacCosgair (William T. Cosgrave) to hand his resignation to the Governor General of the Irish Free State, His Excellency James McNeill, appointed by King George...
...Chicago, Mr. de Valera has been soliciting Irish money to start one more newspaper in support of his cause: freedom, legal Irishification of Ireland, statehood. "Mr. de Valera cannot be elected President," said Mr. Cosgrave confidently last week, "with the Dail as it is at present constituted...
Reason: de Valera deputies number only 57 in a Dail of 153. Having slept on this fact in Chicago, Mr. de Valera unpacked, resumed his calls on rich. Irish prospects, pleased his mother. Mrs. Katherine Wheelwright of Rochester, N. Y., who hopes to see her boy before he sails...
...that they have not-officially. I'm the Prime Minister of the Free State and as such the titular head of the state. The Governor-General is appointed on my advice. He is merely the ceremonial representative of the British King. I come up for election in the Dail [the lower house] and have to be approved by the Seanad [the Senate]. Then I appoint my ministers and they are approved in the same manner as I am approved. England has no voice or part in the selection of either myself or my min-isters...
Although zealous, Mr. Cosgrave was not immediately conspicuous in a party of zealots. Elected a Deputy of the Dail Eireann, he advanced to cabinet rank in the Provisional Government; but in the spring of 1922 he was still little known to Irishmen. Yet when winter came he was, and is now President of the Irish Free State...