Word: dublin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dublin. Biggest lottery in the world is the Irish Hospitals Sweepstakes, held three times a year, in which winners are determined by the running of England's three major horse races. Since 1930, 20 such Sweepstakes have paid out some $170,000,000 in prizes, made some $70,000,000 for Irish hospitals. Last week, four days before England's Grand National Steeplechase at Aintree, Sweepstakes drawings were held in Mansion House, residence of Dublin's Lord Mayor Alfred ("Alfie") Byrne...
Procedure of the draw is simple. For every ticket sold, at $2.50 each, a stub with the buyer's name and address goes to Dublin. The stubs are churned together in a large drum. In another, smaller drum are churned slips of paper on which are written the names of the horses entered in the race. Of the money paid in to the lottery, about 60% goes for prizes. The prize money is divided into units of $500,000. For each unit one ticket-holder's name is drawn from the big drum simultaneously with the drawing...
Earnán Ó Maille, to give him his Gaelic, was a boy of 18 when the Trouble started. Old Mother Ireland and her woes meant little to him: his family were gentry and his childhood in Mayo and Dublin had been governess-guarded. But when the guns began to pop in Dublin's Easter Week rising, O Malley's heart told him that he was Irish too. He sneaked out of the house after dark, joined a pal who had a rifle, took turns firing at British rifle flashes. Soon he had joined the Irish Republican Army...
...British soldiers, waged a waspish war attacking isolated barracks and police stations, barricading roads, ambushing convoys. He was wounded half a dozen times. One unlucky morning he was captured. Put through a grisly third-degree, beaten up, constantly threatened with death, he was finally clapped into Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin's strongest. Few months later, before his identity had been discovered, he and a few bold comrades escaped. A seasoned veteran now at 24, O Malley was sent back to his guerrilla battlefield, this time with 7,000 men in his command. He found the revolutionary movement driven literally underground...
...with all speed, but this applies only to the United Kingdom and its Crown colonies. George VI is in each Dominion separately King, and no act of the Mother of Parliaments can settle in London who is to be Regent as far as Ottawa, Canberra, Wellington, Cape Town or Dublin are concerned...