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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fond of the Cherry Hill prison, having been in it pretty consistently for 20 years. Shortly afterward he was set free-75 and still surprisingly spry. Two months later he was arrested in Wilmington, Del. for stealing two bedspreads. Three months after that sentence expired, he stole a suitcase from an automobile. So last week he was in trouble again. Joe Buzzard's venerable age saved him from Delaware's famed whipping post. Chief Justice Daniel Layton's remarks as he sentenced him to two more years, however, were sufficiently humiliating: "You're old enough...
...integration of the national territory, and without prejudice to the right of the Parliament and Government established by this Constitution to exercise jurisdiction over the whole of that territory, the laws enacted by that Parliament shall have the like area and extent of application as the laws of the Free State and the like extraterritorial effect." Article Four: "The name of the State is Eire...
...Geneva on League business, has been making little stopovers in London, negotiating on the quiet with Britain's Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs, Malcolm MacDonald, the earnest, able, bespectacled, innocent-looking son of Scotland's late great Ramsay. Since 1932 the United Kingdom and the Free State have been engaged in a bitter tariff war, each deliberately rigging its schedules to hurt the other as much as possible. Another old sore is Free State resentment at the United Kingdom's continuing to maintain British harbor defenses, "on Erin's sacred...
Recently Eamon de Valera secured the adoption of a new Constitution which has changed the Free State into Eire (TIME, July 12 et ante). The new Constitution is so drawn that the "territory" of Mr. de Valera's nation "consists" of the whole island, and yet its "jurisdiction" today is only over what was formerly the Free State and not over Northern Ireland (see map).* Not only does Eire have to be mapped as two areas at once, but the whole conception is of a Catholic Irish nature, recalling that the new Constitution opens with the words...
...Even the chairman of the provisional Government of the Irish Free State, Michael Collins, was assassinated by Irishmen for having negotiated in England the treaty which made...