Word: irelands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Middle Class, anathema to aristocrats and proletarians. He had no occasion to study the Sudeten, Czech or Slovak problems, but in 1885 he did propose to transform the British Isles into a federation with five separate parliaments. He was two generations ahead of his time in wanting to give Ireland substantially the status that it has today...
...Egypt. The influence of Son Austen as Lord Privy Seal and Leader in the House of Commons was decisive in achieving exactly what Father Joseph had advocated and died devoutly wishing: the Irish Free State, and a peace which has now lasted between Britain and Ireland for more than a decade...
...Europe, however, a report from the International Chamber of Commerce showed, only Ireland has carried through a similar census, in 1933. Elsewhere statis tics are extremely spotty. Britain has no complete tabulation of its retail establish ments, France of its consumption of tex tiles, Germany of its volume of advertising...
...started sending me cables to appear in ... night clubs, . . . and him a preacher, at that." Day later, at San Francisco City Hall, beside Mayor Angelo Rossi, he noted the Irishmen on the reception committee (Quinn, Riordan, Casey, Murphy, Reilly) : ". . . From the names ... I figured I was back in Ireland. And here I always thought you were all Eyetalians up here." The crowd tittered uncertainly, then Corrigan said his last word: "You came to laugh at me and I came to laugh at you, so I guess we're even...
...Great Britain and Ireland have 1,041 trade unions, whose development began in 1825. The 5,308,000 members (as of 1936) are roughly one-third of the workers eligible. About half the unions are grouped, for purposes of collective bargaining, into 63 federations. Most of the unions thus federated belong to a Trades Union Congress (comparable...