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William Thomas Cosgrave, wild-haired, mild-eyed little leader of Eire's muted opposition party (the Fine Gael), retired. Successively a bar-boy, Sinn Feiner (he was sentenced to death, later pardoned for his part in 1916's Easter Rebellion) and Eire President (1922-32), 63-year-old Cosgrave is reported to have been ailing for eight years...
...night long no one on North America saw tail or strut of Douglas Corrigan. Then, some 27 hours later, an American plane was spotted streaking past Belfast like a Sinn Feiner ducking the Black and Tans. It was Corrigan, all right, and an hour later he fluttered down at Baldonnel Airport near Dublin...
...delegates left Ottawa for the official opening of the Welland Ship Canal between Lakes Erie & Ontario police heard of a plot to assassinate James Henry Thomas, British Secretary of State for Dominions. Orders went out for the arrest of "a Sinn Feiner of the most radical type -a slight, ruddy-faced Irishman with a broad, noticeable nose"-a description which, except for the nationality, might also be applied to Mr. Thomas. In Toronto was apprehended one Dan Malone, who said it was a "frame...
Last week Benjamin F. Feiner Jr. (of Feiner & Skutch, Manhattan) fixed the Curb's record for this year by paying...
...last week one Deputy, Dan Breen, a Sinn Feiner, took his courage in both hands and took his seat in the Dail. He was not mobbed, but famed Eamon de Valera, onetime self-styled "President of the Irish Republic," said sorrowfully: "We deeply regret Breen's action...