Word: de
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vote was not nearly so unanimous as tall, teacherish President Eamon de Valera had hoped and expected, but at latest reports ratification of the new Constitution seemed certain by 560,000 votes to 436,000. The de Valera party made a weaker showing, with virtually complete returns early this week promising its opponents roughly half of the Dail's 138 seats...
...Constitution entirely omits mention of any King. It provides for the election of a President having somewhat the ornamental powers of the President of France, with most of the executive job being done, as in France, by a Premier. In Dublin last week Mr. de Valera was said to want his trusty henchman Sean T. O'Kelly elected President, himself to become Premier...
...make this change will take time and require another election in about six months. Moreover, lacking a clear majority, Mr. de Valera will have to make concessions to the Labor Party to secure its support. Nothing seemed likely to be done for the present about the most ominous feature of the new Constitution: it purports to be the Constitution not of the Irish Free State alone but of all Ireland, including the six counties of Ulster or Northern Ireland which are now part of the United Kingdom. To hotheads who want "Dev" at once to take drastic action, Mr. de...
...generations of the House of Bourbon, fought over by the three ghostly old sisters of the late Don Jaime, Carlist pretender to the Spanish throne, a famed diamond necklace was finally up for sale by the two sisters who have clung to it since 1931: 68-year-old Blanche de Castille, Archduchess of Austria, and 63-year-old Marie Beatrice Therese Charlotte, Princess of Massimo. The necklace: a riviere of 29 stones with 13 pendants which the city of Paris presented to Queen Marie Antoinette of France and which adorned her throat before the guillotine severed...
...Covent Garden's Coronation operas (TIME, May 3). Director Sir Thomas Beecham had engaged such guest conductors as Wilhelm Furtwängler, John Barbirolli, Francesco Salfi, Artur Rodzinski, Fritz Reiner. Eugene Goossens of the Cincinnati Symphony had been hired to conduct the world premiere of Don Juan de Manara, a bloodthirsty opera differing widely from Mozart's Don Giovanni, which he had composed for the late Arnold Bennett's libretto. He had succeeded in combining with his own company the Paris Grand Opera and Opéra-Comique. Colonel de Basil's Ballet Russe had been...