Word: dubliner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory, 80, Irish dramatist, patroness of Dublin's famed Abbey Theatre, widow of the late Governor Sir William Gregory of Ceylon; in Belfast. An able playwright (Cuchulain of Muirthemne, Gods & Fighting Men, Saints & Wonders), she sponsored the "Celtic Renaissance" with George Moore, William Butler Yeats, Edward Martyn. Creating an Irish National Theatre out of Abbey Theatre, she aroused a storm of protest with her productions. So unpopular was John Millington Synge's Playboy of the Western World that Lady Gregory's young nephews had to fetch burly athletes from Trinity College to quell...
Voters who believed the platform promises of Eamon de Valera to reduce taxation could barely believe their eyes when they read the Budget Bill presented to the Dail in Dublin last week by embarrassed Finance Minister Sean MacEntee...
...MacEntee budget pleased the Laborites whose support keeps President de Valera in power. The President stuck last week to the job of keeping his other great campaign promise- his promise to abolish the Oath of Fealty to the King (TIME, Feb. 29, et seq.}. In Dublin the bill abolishing the Oath was before the Irish Senate having passed the Dail. Suddenly in London the beans were spilled by that pudgy-fingered, perennial bungler the Rt. Hon. James Henry ("Jim") Thomas, Minister of Dominions...
...abolished Great Britain will retaliate by refusing to renew the tariff preferences she now grants to the Free State. Obviously the timing of this threat was such as to enrage the Irish Senate just before it voted. It increased the chances that the bill would pass. Quietly jubilant in Dublin, teacherish President de Valera dryly said...
...from Newark Airport late at night, Pilot Reichers roared to Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, in 6 hr. 19 min. As he taxied up the field, the plane's tail skid threw a rock through the fuselage, injuring the stabilizer controls. Quickly repairing the damage, he sped off for Paris via Dublin. When finally forced down by a cracked wing and fuel shortage, Pilot Reichers was within 150 mi. of his scheduled stop, 51 mi. from land...