Word: eamon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people who make up 33% of his constituents. "Many of the audience employ Catholics," he said, "but I have not one about my place." The next July 12 Sir Basil recalled: "I recommended people not to employ Roman Catholics, who are 99% disloyal." (Meanwhile, down in Eire, Taoiseach Eamon de Valera was saying: "Ulster's rejection of an all-Ireland union is an outrage which Irishmen throughout the world will resent...
Deputy Dr. Thomas F. O'Higgins, the doughty man, rose in the Dail Eireann last week to complain that Prime Minister Eamon de Valera had called the Opposition "cubs...
...Government had no answer and few plans. "We're not responsible for sun-spots," snapped mystic mathematician Premier Eamon de Valera at his critics. And while Dev doodled oversize hieroglyphics, at his side nervous, lanky Agriculture Minister Patrick Smith could only assure the Dail that "with the help of God" the weather would mend. "I have faith in the mercy of God," piously echoed an Opposition frontbencher. Like the Government, the Opposition had no further ideas...
...England is concerned," declared Prime Minister Eamon de Valera last week before the whole Dail assembled, "it is a matter that everybody must regard as wonderful the way in which the British are denying themselves to see that more supplies will be available in Europe...
...results were eminently satisfactory. Socialist Gibson, who looks like Eire's Eamon de Valera, won with 3,105 votes. Liberal Herbert Wiebe trailed him with 2,406 votes. Progressive-Conservative Rupert Ramsay with...