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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before the bombings the citizens of Eire were startled to find their principal streets plastered with a proclamation issued by the illegal, fanatically nationalist Irish Republican Army. The proclamation also appeared in Northern Ireland, the six counties still under British rule. In England, while police officials chased around after the bombers, copies of the proclamation were posted in London, Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham. It called for militant action against Britain to force the long-sought union of all Ireland under one Republic, proclaimed...
...voice broke then, but through tears he spoke on: "I am an old man. . . Somehow ... I must find out ... whether I have loved ones who have given me up for dead. ... I do not want to die nameless and alone...
...know about speeds above 400 miles an hour," ruefully admitted the Army's greying Early-Bird pilot. "We are told that engines in the wings will deliver 30% more power at speeds over 300 miles an hour, and we ought to find that out, because we could use that added horsepower in more speed...
Retorted Madam Secretary: "It may interest you to know that one of my specialties is relieving tension. ... I hold pretty moderate views on [labor problems] and when I have an opportunity to discuss them I find that I generally allay suspicion and even modify ill-will and dislike...
...baby have to move on again. Six weeks from the time he had been washed away, the convict gets back to the place where his journey began. "Yonder's your boat, and here's the woman," he tells the deputy sheriff. "But I never did find that bastard on the cotton house." The deputy and the warden repeating "Them convicts," slap another ten years on his sentence for trying to escape...