Word: eamon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Smoking election torches marched through Dublin streets by night last week. "Up de Valera!" roared the torch bearers, and Ireland's hero was carried shoulder high. Excited Irishmen swore on every hand that Eamon de Valera would soon succeed William Thomas Cosgrave as President of the Irish Free State. With a third of the votes still to be counted, Mr. Cosgrave conceded grimly, "It looks as though my Government would...
...Irish youth had made its bid for liberty. The leaders of the revolt were crushed as speedily as their predecessors had been, but among the rank and file there were those who carried on the tradition of insurgency even after peace had been patched up. Chief among them was Eamon De Valera, whose career closely parallels that of Hitler in Germany. Today, after a decade spent in leading a lost cause, he seems likely to achieve a precarious dominance in the Free State...
...Gone-Again") Finnegan, Mr. William T. Cosgrave was in again last week, going again as "President" of the Irish Free State. Few were surprised. Having been defeated by two votes in the Dail Eireann fortnight ago, President Cosgrave had resigned (TIME, April 7), but his chief opponent, long-nosed Eamon de Valera thought so little of his own chances of succeeding Mr. Cosgrave that he did not bother to cancel his present U. S. tour...
...Eamon de Valera is the outstanding Irishman of the present generation." he shouted. "He is the only man likely to restore the lost confidence of the people." When the laughter caused by this remark had died down, members of the Dail promptly defeated Absentee de Valera, 93 to 54, as promptly defeated another candidate, Thomas J. O'Connell, Laborite. Then they put shock-headed "Willie" Cosgrave back into power with a vote...
...leader of the Opposition was not even in Ireland, had nothing to do with the Government's defeat, was in fact in Chicago. Chances were good that before he could return Mr. Cosgrave would again be "President."' Chicago reporters found the leader of the Opposition, Mr. Eamon de Valera, throwing things into suitcases. He has never ceased to call himself "President of the Irish Republic" but might as well claim to be the "Man in the Moon." Said he as he packed: "Should I head the next Irish Government, my principal concerns will be the country...