Word: dublin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from the U. S., a tall, hard-eyed Montana Baptist named William Wallace McDowell who, after two weeks on the job, dropped dead of a heart attack (TIME, April 16, 1934). Last week the new U. S. Minister to the Irish Free State, Alvin Mansfield Owsley, set out for Dublin Castle to present his credentials, not to King George's representative, Governor General Donal Buckley, but to President Eamon de Valera...
Last week he rode through Dublin's hot streets behind an escort of Free State cavalry, brilliant in blue and saffron full-dress uniforms with orange plumes in their helmets. At the castle yard a battalion of infantry, in green, saluted him. Officers with drawn swords led him upstairs to St. Patrick's Hall where waited President de Valera. Minister Owsley made a little prepared speech. The Free State President launched into a speech entirely in Gaelic, not a word of which did Minister Owsley understand. "Cead mille failte," cried de Valera, meaning "a hundred thousand welcomes." When the strange...
Afterward he told newshawks: "It was all magnificent. I did not see any incident or anything to mar the beautiful warmth of the reception." What Minister Owsley was so careful to explain he had not seen was a small riot of Irish Communists along his route to Dublin Castle. The burden of the Communist hullabaloo was, with magnificent irrelevancy, "RELEASE TOM MOONEY." Ostensibly because the California Supreme Court has turned down Tom Mooney's appeals four times, the Irish Reds threw around leaflets saying, "Owsley does not represent the American people and therefore can not expect cead mille failte...
...Heart. Consequently, any picture of which the Irish hero is neither a rustic clown nor a cow-eyed crooner with a rush of brogue to the face can be classed immediately as a daring experiment. The Informer, of which the hero is a drunken, overgrown, dull-witted and cowardly Dublin bully, is a daring experiment and considerably more. Adapted by Dudley Nichols from Liam O'Flaherty's novel of the same name, it tells with superb, ironic power the story of Gypo Nolan (Victor McLaglen) and one night, his last, in the murky slums of Dublin. Implicit...
John Winthrop was an alchemist but an enterprising, open-minded one. Born in 1606 at Groton, England, he had attended Dublin's Trinity College, later dabbled in the law, spent five years junketing about Europe, encountered many a scholarly personage with whom he kept in touch by correspondence in Latin. When, at 24, he followed his father to the New World, he was undismayed by the fact that the colonies had no college, no scientific society, laboratory or library. He imported the first library and the first apparatus. His was the idea for the first chemical stock company...