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...government of long-necked Eamon de Valera was accused by the governors of the Cork North Infirmary last week of withholding nearly $2,600,000 due to Irish hospitals as results of the last three Irish Hospitals' Sweepstakes (on the November Handicap, the Grand National, the Derby...
...Intent on furthering his economic war, Eamon de Valera had lengthy conferences last week with the six Free State commissioners who regulate Irish currency. Rumors would not be denied that they were discussing the possibility of establishing a separate decimal Irish currency based on the dollar instead of the pound, a move sure to be popular with school children, bookkeepers, adding machine manufacturers and Anglophobes. In 1926, four years after the establishment of the Irish Free State, the entire Irish dollar question was gone into exhaustively by a commission headed by Economist Dr. Henry Parker Willis of New York...
Just as though the Free State's squabbles with Britain had never arisen and Eamon de Valera had never been born, 884 of the finest horses in the world delicately chomped their oats in Dublin last week and tripped round & round the paddock in parti-colored flannel blankets. It was the opening of the Dublin Horse Show, greatest event in the Irish social season and an annual magnet for scores of U. S. sportsmen on their way north for Scotland, Aug. 12 and grouse...
Without division the sober Senators of the Irish Free State passed a resolution last week asking thin-necked President Eamon de Valera. of whom they do not approve, to negotiate with Great Britain to settle Ireland's most urgent problem immediately: Whether the Free State is to cease remitting annuities to the British Government for estates of British and Irish landlords divided and sold on the installment plan to Irish tenants. The Senators might as well have saved their breath. President de Valera pushed a ?2,000,000 emergency appropriation through the Dail for the establishment of new industries...
That President Eamon De Valera has sufficient backing to override the refractory Free State Senate he proved last week when Senators rejected the bill empowering his Cabinet to impose retaliatory tariffs against the Mother Country (TIME, July...