Word: eamon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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DUBLIN, Ireland, March 7--Eamon de Valera regained control of Parliament tonight in a smashing political comeback for the 74-year-old New York-born Irish patriot...
...Eamon de Valera (Sun. 3 p.m., NBC). Interview with Ireland's first President...
...when the time came to cast their votes last week, the discouraged citizens of Ireland dragged themselves to the polls without enthusiasm and in lackluster weariness turned Eamon de Valera out of office, quite possibly forever. When the returns were in, De Valera's Fianna Fail (Men of Destiny) Party had lost eight seats in the Parliament, the Independents who often supported them had lost one. Altogether the opposition parties, led by John Costello's Fine Gael (United Ireland), had gained enough votes to give the anti-Dev coalition a shaky majority...
...complement of sleepy detectives. In district after district where the caravan stopped, farmers and townsfolk clustered round for a look at the gaunt, aging (71) hero who had won political freedom for their nation in 1922 and guided its destiny almost constantly ever since. They listened respectfully as Eamon de Valera, now almost blind, once again outlined his austere plans for Ireland's future. They cheered him with the old campaign...
After a busy holiday eve lunching with Irish Premier Eamon de Valera, holding a full Cabinet meeting and clearing his desk, Sir Winston Churchill slipped away for a two-week vacation at the Riviera villa owned by Publisher Lord Beaverbrook. Puckishly traveling incognito as "Mr. Hyde," although 300 well-wishers gathered at London Airport to see him off and several hundred more met him at Cap d'Ail, Sir Winston was accompanied by his daughter Mary and her husband, Captain Christopher Soames, two secretaries and three Scotland Yard inspectors. "Cap d'Ail has received its mayor...