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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago the Irish Free State flatly refused to pay $25,000,000 yearly for land annuities owed British absentee landlords. In retaliation, Britain slapped a penalty tariff on Irish products, the Free State retaliated in kind and a first-rate tariff war was on. Last week Mr. de Valera, according to reports which leaked out from the meeting, turned up with an almost inspired proposal. As salve to his own people, he suggested that British naval bases on Irish soil be turned over to Eire, that England be allowed to use them and other bases to be built...
...De Valera's success made things easy for Ulster's Prime Minister Lord Craigavon. who had just dissolved Ulster's Parliament and called a general election for February 9. announcing, "I feel it necessary to put the position of Ulster beyond doubt." Since Ulster elections are fought on religious rather than political lines and Ulster is two-thirds Protestant, one-third Catholic, the result of an election when Mr. de Valera is clamoring for a united Ireland is almost a foregone conclusion: In rebuffing de Valera's proposal, Ulster would return to office for another term...
...Finance Ministry passed to Paul Marchandeau, Mayor of Rheims, a battle-scarred holder of the Croix de Guerre and Legion of Honor. He is the sort of man sound men call sound. Even so, on international exchange the franc remained weak while France sat tight in the badly rocked boat of her political equilibrium. For despite every effort made by all parties concerned to conceal it, the Popular Front of Communists, Socialists and Radical Socialists was in a state of disintegration, and the chances of its long survival seemed slim. In his ministerial declaration Premier Chautemps frankly confessed that...
Married. Cecilia Hoyt De Mille Calvin, 29, daughter of Film Producer Cecil Blount De Mille; to Joseph W. Harper, 34, Manhattan and Hollywood publisher, who ushered at his fiancee's 1930 marriage to Broker Francis Calvin; in Kansas City...
Married. Lois De Fee, 19, onetime bouncer in Manhattan's Dizzy Club who stands 6 ft. 4 in., weighs 190 lb.; to 3½-ft., 79-lb. Midget Bill Curtis, 29; in Miami...