Word: eamon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Long, lean Eamon de Valera caught only snatches of troubled sleep last week. Although his home, ''Springville," is but ten motor minutes from Government House in Dublin, President de Valera had a bed lugged into his office. Toiling and arguing with his Cabinet Ministers, Ireland's "Messiah of Freedom'' faced with haggard mien an invisible and potent foe: the collective opposition of very polite British statesmen throughout the Empire. London hurled at Dublin last week a terrifying silence, a lack of further protest against the two major platform promises on which President de Valera was elected: abolition of the Free...
...Irelands. Pushed by British pressure out of the picture last week was Eamon de Valera's hope and plan that on becoming President he could negotiate for a union of the two Irelands, North & South, Protestant and Catholic...
...Dublin new President Eamon de Valera closeted himself to draft his reply to Great Britain's note, took no part in any of the 50 demonstrations staged in 50 Free State cities and towns by the Irish Republican Army?an illegal organization which under previous President Cosgrave was drastically repressed. To prevent clashes, the Regular Free State Army was ordered by President de Valera to remain in barracks...
Work done last week by President Eamon de Valera. called by his enemies a windbag, by his friends a Messiah of Freedom...
...Rochester, N. Y. a quiet old lady who dresses mostly in black was told that her son had become President. ''I am very happy to hear the news," said Mrs. Catherine Wheelwright. She bore Eamon de Valera where Manhattan's Chrysler Building stands today. The President's father (a Spaniard) is dead and so is his stepfather, Mr. Wheelwright. Several times Eamon de Valera has visited his old mother in Rochester...