Word: dublin
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Dean of Canadian financiers is venerable Sir Herbert Samuel Holt. 74, who migrated from Dublin, Ireland, at 19. He is considered Canada's richest man, but his wealth has come from no single accomplishment. It represents his profits from a long association with Canada's industrialization. He was one of the leaders in the tireless group who built the Canadian Pacific. So soon as the last spike was driven, Sir Herbert went to South America and built the Trans-Andean railroad. After this interlude he returned to Montreal, battled for light and gas companies, in 1908 became president...
Such exciting letters as only hopping-mad, cussing-mad Irishmen can write poured in by the mailbagful last week upon Dublin's brindle-bearded George William Russell, poet, painter, philosopher and sprightly sage, famed as "AE." As greatly beloved as any living Irishman, Poet Russell had roused the furies by a pungent critique* of Ireland's secret and romantic brotherhoods as they exist today. A tough old patriot himself, he finds the brotherhoods flabby-muscled, fatheaded, sunk like the Ku Klux Klan in babbittry, bigotry. Wrote he: "The secret societies of a generation ago had for object...
...Dublin, opinion was current, last week, that only one thing prevents the Irish Free State Parliament from passing a resolution similar to that passed by the State of New York (TIME, March 10) deploring and condemning "Red Persecutions...
...Dublin, de Valera lieutenants did their best last week for their absent chieftain. Before packed galleries in the Dail (Chamber of Deputies) grimly facing the complacent government benches, Sean T. O'Kelly, acting leader of the Fianna Fail (Irish Republican party), put Mr. de Valera's name in nomination for President of the Irish Free State...
Next morning Mr. Cosgrave, whose position as "President" is strikingly similar to that of a "Prime Minister," reported himself to his superior, the representative of King George V, jovial Governor- General of the Irish Free State James McNeill, who had rushed back from the Continent to Dublin to receive him. With the Dail's approval all members of the Irish Cabinet which fell fortnight ago were reinstated in their old ministries under President Cosgrave...