Word: dubliner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which is more, much more, in proportion to population than what Germany was obliged to pay under the Young Plan. . . . The Irish people have always aspired to complete independence. . . . They accepted the Free State [equivalent to 'dominion status'] as an alternative to the renewal of war." In Dublin just as Finance Minister Sean Macentee was about to promulgate the tariffs authorized by the Dail last week "he collapsed in his home from strain and was ordered to bed for several days by his doctor" while his undersecretaries did the promulgating...
...Dublin officials pointed out that the Free State can easily obtain from the U. S., France, Germany and Belgium the manufactured goods she has previously bought from Great Britain. "That would realize," said President de Valera, "another ideal: direct, economic touch with other nations. In times of shrinking foreign markets ours is not a trifle...
...good measure last week, despite the fact that the Irish Senate had blocked the. Bail's bill to abolish the oath of fealty, Finance Minister Sean MacEntee declared at Dublin: "The oath is as dead as Queen Anne!* It will never be taken again...
...courses are possible. Either after a lapse of 18 months the bill will automatically become law, despite the Senate opposition, or President de Valera can advise Governor General James McNeill to dissolve the Senate at once and declare a general election. In Dublin it had been currently said that, "McNeill and de Valera aren't on speaking terms," but last week the President called on the Governor General, presumably spoke and was spoken...
...Honor & Betray, were sometimes mis taken for each other. They are both tall, dark, wide-eyed, slow-moving. Both dress well, move their mouths a good deal when they talk, but they look not much alike. Brent, 28, an Irish newsman's son, was born and educated in Dublin. He joined the famed Abbey Theatre Company in Dublin, later went to Denver with a stock company, then to Manhattan, then to Hollywood. His favorite role was his part opposite Ruth Chatterton in The Rich Are Always With Us. His engagement to marry Ruth Chatterton, not yet divorced from Ralph...