Word: irelander
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...aboard the Leviathan, two people, meticulous and honest, made out their customs list. They were Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg and Mrs. Kellogg. They were returning to New York after the signing of the Kellogg pact in Paris (TIME, Sept. 3) and after a four-day visit to Ireland...
...little legacy to each he leaves in this last volume. Destiny Bay is the bonniest corner of Ireland, where the purplest heather grows, the gamest trout swim, the swiftest horses race, the most picturesque of gypsies roam, and the finest gentlefolk rule. Head of the ruling family is Sir Valentine, red-bearded from eye to waist, soft of heart, sharp of eye, with a ready curse for any emergency. For the sake of a dying gypsy-queen he defied a time-honored rule of the Derby. He also bullied a Catholic priest into burying a Chinese-his brother...
Secretary Kellogg was visiting President Cosgrave, who was returning to Ireland after having signed at Paris a parchment called The Multilateral Treaty for Renouncing War as an Instrument of National Policy, Representatives of 15 nations had signed in Paris (TIME, Sept. 3). Moreover, when President Cosgrave and Secretary Kellogg stepped upon Irish soil, they knew that several additional nations had already declared their desire and intention to sign...
Archbishop Michael Joseph Curley of Baltimore, last week celebrating mass at his native Athlone, Ireland, had a greater pair of soloists than ever graced his Baltimore service. Tenor John McCormack (also born at Athlone) and Soprano Lucrezia Bori (born at Valenzia, Spain, but summering with the McCormacks) sang for the archbishop...
...measures that his party did not support, Sir Robert Peel was honored at death for sacrificing popular favor and party goodwill to the welfare of the nation. That welfare he fostered by an impressive array of reforms-most of them in the face of impassioned opposition: Catholic Emancipation in Ireland; establishment of constabulary forces-the London Bobbie (or Peeler) by tradition is nicknamed in his honor; wise factory legislation; reorganization of taxation, currency, criminal law; development of a new liberal Conservative party out of the reactionary Tories; and finally, drastic Free Trade measures which initiated the vast expansion of British...